Cops vs Copse - What's the difference?
cops | copse |
(slang) ; Police officers.
* 1986 , Liam Sternberg (performed by The Bangles), Walk Like an Egyptian
The police, considered as a group entity.
* 1906 ,
(cop)
(UK, dialect) The connecting crook of a harrow.
* 1807 , The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry
A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
* 1798 , , Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey , lines 9–15 (for syntax):
* 1919 , , Valmouth , Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:
(horticulture) To trim or cut.
(horticulture) To plant and preserve.
As nouns the difference between cops and copse
is that cops is while copse is a thicket of small trees or shrubs.As a verb copse is
(horticulture) to trim or cut.cops
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(head)- All the cops in the donut shops say, "Way-oh-way-oh-way-ooo-aaa-ooo"
- "Maybe he'll git the cops after you, Jack." "I'll watch out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch out too," answered Jack Sagger.
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
Noun
- It is almost needless to say, that the true point of draught should be exactly in the centre notch of the cops
Anagrams
* ----copse
English
Noun
(en noun)- The day is come when I again repose
- Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
- These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,
- Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,
- Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves
- ’Mid groves and copses .
- Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.