couper

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Pronunciation

/ˈkaʊpə/

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/ˈkaʊpə/ · /ˈkʌʉpᵻr/ · /ˈkaʊpər/

Definition of couper

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

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

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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

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