From en.wiktionary.org:
[copé]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], from [en].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. To cut and form a mitre d joint in wood or metal.
6. [en] To clip the beak or talon s of a bird.
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1856 | author=w:John Henry Walsh | title=Manual of British Rural Sports
|passage=the beak and talons should be closely _COPED_}}
***** Conjugation
[stem=cop]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|noncoping|uncoping |coper|dyscopia |cope and stick|cope chisel|cope
with|coping saw|cope and seethe}}
***** Translations
[to deal effectively with something]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] ( à )
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [+ instrumental case]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[to form a joint]
- Norwegian:
[trans-bottom]
[to clip parts of a bird] [trans-bottom]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure a hopeless situation .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2019 | author=Talia Lavin | title=Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy | pageurl=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Culture_Warlords/XFfODwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22just+another+cope%22&pg=PT103 | page=unnumbered
|passage=There was some public grousing about the number of white supremacists
attempting to recruit, however; some incels argued that white supremacy was
just another " COPE"–just another self-deluding attempt to cover over the grim
truth of the blackpill.}}
1. * 2020 , anonymous, quoted in Jacob Conley, "Efficacy, Nihilism, and Toxic Masculinity Online: Digital Misogyny in the Incel Subculture", thesis submitted to The Ohio State University, page 18 (see https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/91688/Conley_Thesis_2020.pdf?sequence=1) :
2. *: My only 2 COPES for the past 3 years have been food & the internet/surfing. Both of these COPES have only hurt me further as I have addictions to both sugar and the internet now and have isolated myself further and further into the oblivion.
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2020 | author=Brian Whitney | title=The "Supreme Gentleman" Killer: The True Story of an Incel Mass Murderer | pageurl=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Supreme_Gentleman_Killer/mZDrDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Gymcel+is+an+incel+who+goes%22&pg=PT72 | page=unnumbered
|passage=Just as it sounds, a Gymcel is an incel who goes to the gym a lot,
which in their mind is a COPE.}}
1. * [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en |cope cage |copium }}
**** Interjection
[en-interj] [en] [en]
1. [An expression of spite towards someone who suffered a setback .]
2. [en] [A contemptuous dismissal , implying that someone should deal with some problem on their own and that the speaker will not engage any further.]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], from [en] [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A long, loose cloak worn by a priest , deacon [,] or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass .
2. * [part=2]
3. * [text=He possessed a gorgeous COPE of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.]
4. Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle .
5. [en] The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.
6. * [book=4]
7. * [chapter=12]
8. * [I]
9. * [passage=It was, indeed, a majestic idea that the destiny of nations should be revealed, in these awful hieroglyphics, on the COPE of heaven.]
10. [en] A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal , masonry [,] or stone , and sloped to carry off water.
11. [en] [en] The top part of a sand casting mold . [1]
12. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mine s in Derbyshire , England .
***** Derived terms
- coping stone
***** Translations
[ceremonial cloak]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is] , [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[any covering]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- French: [fr]
[trans-bottom]
[a wall or roof coping] [trans-bottom]
[top part of a sand casting mold]
- French: [fr]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To cover (a joint or structure ) with coping .
2. [en] To form a cope or arch ; to arch or bend ; to bow .
3. * [chapter=The Second Booke of the Symposiaques. The Fourth Question. Whether Wrestling were of All the Exercises and Games of Prise, Most Ancient or No?]
***** Translations
[to cover (a joint or structure) with coping] [trans-bottom]
[to form a cope or arch]
*** Etymology 3
From [en], borrowed from [en]. Cognate with [nl], [de].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To bargain for; to buy .
2. [en] To exchange or barter .
3. * [poem=Prosopopoia]
4. [en] To make return for; to requite ; to repay .
5. * [IV]
6. [en] To match oneself against; to meet ; to encounter .
7. * [II]
8. * [I]
9. * [en]
10. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1708 | author=w:John Philips | title=Cyder
|passage=Host COPED with host, dire was the din of war.}}
1. [en] To encounter ; to meet ; to have to do with.
2. * [III]
***** Derived terms
[en]
**** References
References:
[1]. 1880 , Leo de Colange, _The American Dictionary of Commerce [...]_
- [R:Webster 1913]
*** Etymology 4
[en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To tie or sew up the mouth of a ferret used for hunting rabbits .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1631 | author=Richard Brathwaite | title=Whimzies
|passage=His nimble ferrets must now become pioners for their master who
COUPES them, lest they should grow too fat to endure labour.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1825 | author=Robert Forby | title=The Vocabulary of East-Anglia
|passage=The use of this word is confined to warreners, who are said to 'COPE'
their ferrets, when they sew or tie up their mouths, to prevent them from
biting rabbits, when they are used to drive them from their holes.}}
1. [en] To silence or prevent from speaking .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1601 | author=John Deacon; John Walker | title=Dialogicall Discourses of Spirits and Divels
|passage=Well sir? how triflingly soeuer you trauers the matter, these my
Philosophicall proceedings (for any thing hitherto heard) might fullie suffice
to put your fantasticall fooleries to a perpetuall non-sute: were you not like
to the rauenous Ferret, which rendeth in peeces whatsoeuer poore Rabbet doth
come in her reach. And therefore it shall not be amisse to COPE vp your lips
a little, by taking foorthwith so strict a course as you shall neuer be able
to contradict with all your skill: which may in this sort be verie fitly
effected.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1621 | author=w:Thomas Dekker | title=w:Match Me in London
|passage=And tell me Signior, why when you eate our good cheare i'th City,
haue you handſome wide chops, but meeting vs at Court, none; your gumme's
glew'd vp, your lips COAP'D like a Ferret, not ſo much as the corner of a
Cuſtard; if a cold cup, and a dry cheate loaf 'tis well.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1672 | author=John Eachard | title=Mr. Hobbs's state of nature considered in a dialogue between Philautus and Timothy
|passage=That is; because Roger has a vocal instrument between his chin and
his nose, called a mouth, and being not muzled, gagged or COP'D; but having a
free power, faculty or Page 127 May to open it, and order it as he think fit;
therefore he May stretch it out as wide as he please, and swear quite cross
the Island, that he'l have the whole, or at least half:}}
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Friulian
*** Etymology
From [fur], from [fur].
*** Noun
[f]
1. goblet
2. bowl
3. cup
[fur]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
*** Etymology
From earlier [enm], from [enm]; possibly through an [ang].
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
- [early] [enm]
- [Northern] [enm]
*** Noun
[copes]
1. A cape or cloak ; a loose-fitting outer layer .
2. A [en] ; a clerical cape , especially that worn by monastic s.
3. [enm] A cover or vault .
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [sco]
**** References
- [entry=cōpe]
[enm]
** Old French
*** Alternative forms
- [fro]
*** Etymology
From [fro], from [fro].
*** Pronunciation
- [fro]
*** Noun
[f]
1. cup [vessel from which liquid is drunk]
**** Descendants
- [fr]
- [nrf]
** Spanish
*** Verb
[es]
1. [copar]