Couperとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From coup (“to exchange, barter”) +‎ -er.

名詞

couper (plural coupers)

1. (UK, obsolete) A dealer in horses or other livestock.
   • 1893, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London, page 95:

     I think the Yorkshire story of the farmer who sold his old horse to a couper at a fair, then got very drunk on his good bargain, and bought him back at the end of the day with painted legs and filed teeth as a young horse, might have a kindred story among Daffodil-bulb buyers.

   • 1896, Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland, page 421:

     John Henderson, a cow couper in Swinton, Berwickshire, towards the close of the last century, was very fond of a dram.

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