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Definition of Copsy
1. a. Characterized by copses.
Definition of Copsy
1. Adjective. Characterized by copses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Copsy
1. like a coppice [adj COPSIER, COPSIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copsy
Literary usage of Copsy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution by New York (State), Charles Zebina Lincoln, William H. Johnson, Ansel Judd Northrup (1894)
"TO John Tiebout to be by him imploy'd in repairing copsy Battery The Sum of Two
Hundred & Fourteen Pounds & Ten Shillings. ..."
2. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"A. narcissiflora is always and everywhere a well-beloved friend, easily adorning
cool or sunny copsy corners in the rock-garden, with its soft fan-shaped, ..."
3. Annals and Occurrences of New York City and State, in the Olden Time: Being by John Fanning Watson (1846)
"A large stable and chaise house behind Whitehall slip, facing copsy battery, for
the use of receiving such by the ferry boats, is to let." The word copsy is ..."
4. Richard F. Burton ...: His Early, Private and Public Life; with an Account by Francis Hitchman (1887)
"The air becoming cold—frost being common in these hollows of the Brazilian
Highlands—an adjournment within was voted, and there Mr. copsy prepared a ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1878)
"If the farming is picturesque, with the irregular fields and copsy hedgerows,
with the crops of thistle and yellow ragweed, and the ditches overgrown with ..."
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