cupper

[ kuhp-er ]

noun

1. a person who performs the procedure of cupping. cup.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cupper¹

1400–50 for an earlier sense; 1560–70 for current sense; late Middle English; cup, -er ¹

Example Sentences

The feature of inserting a pinion with clean and sharp blades permitted the cupper to own only two scarificators.

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One cupper, George Frederick Knox, offered in addition personal instruction in cupping procedures.

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Thus, one nineteenth-century cupper concluded, revulsion was only derivation at a distant point.

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The cupper, Knox, preferred the crescent blades because they gave a sharper cut.

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Mohamad Bogharib came up, and I have got a cupper, who cupped my chest.

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