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couper

/ˈkaʊpə/ Australia
/ˈkaʊpə/ UK
/ˈkʌʉpᵻr/ Scotland
/ˈkaʊpər/ US

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

noun coupers · coper

UK, obsolete A dealer in horses or other livestock. 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.

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@misc{couper_2026,
  title = {couper},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/couper},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}