horse-coper
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of horse-coper
First recorded in 1675–85
Example Sentences
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Writing to his mother, he said: 'The people having subscribed �25,000 for a memorial to an ugly bullock of a Hudson, who did not even pretend to have any merit except that of being suddenly rich, and who is now discovered to be little other than at heart a horse-coper and dishonest fellow, I think they ought to leave Cromwell alone of their memorials, and try to honour him in some more profitable way—by learning to be honest men like him, for example.
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At first Edward had better luck with his Lieutenant, a certain horse-coper or dealer.
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The artist-tramp, the tinker who p. 138can write, the horse-coper with a twang of Hamlet and a habit of Monte-Cristo—that is George Borrow.
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He was said to be half silly, at any rate an original, almost in his dotage, living by any lucky bits that he could make as horse-coper and veterinary.
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No one suspected amongst the Romany that he was anything else but a horse-coper.
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