couper
nounUK /ˈkaʊpə/ · US /ˈkaʊpər/
Etymology From coup (“to exchange, barter”) + -er.
- 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.1893, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London, page 95:
- John Henderson, a cow couper in Swinton, Berwickshire, towards the close of the last century, was very fond of a dram.1896, Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland, page 421: