coppy

From cop +‎ -y.

coppy (comparative more coppy, superlative most coppy)

1. (informal) Like or resembling a cop (police officer).
   • 1912, George Harvey Ralphson, Boy Scouts in a Motor Boat:

     "You'll get pinched if you try to go in swimming there," Jack warned. "You needn't think there are more no cops because you're out of New York. They have real coppy cops out here."

From a diminutive (with +‎ -y) of Middle English *cop, found in Middle English copstole, copstule (“a kind of stool”).

coppy (plural coppies)

1. (UK, dialectal) A low stool.

From Middle English copy, a back-formation from copies, copyes, koppis (“coppice, copse”), mistaken as a plural.

coppy (plural coppies)

1. Alternative form of coppice.
   • 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter IX, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, pages 124-125:

     But New England’s shut down, so is Colwick Wood: yes, it’s fair haunting to go through that coppy and see Colwick Wood standing there deserted among the trees, and bushes growing up all over the pit-head, and the lines red rusty. It’s like death itself, a dead colliery.

coppy (plural coppies)

1. Obsolete form of copy.