Noun: copeman
| Singular | copeman |
| Plural | copemen |
Sample Sentences
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He would have sold his part of paradise / For ready money, had he met a cope-man. [1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page):]
Nouns inflected like copeman
whipman,
slaughterman,
seaman,
sawman,
saxman,
sanman,
headswoman,
kettleman,
given man,
skyman,
Manilaman,
boogyman,
brotherman,
beadman,
transgentleman,
baggageman,
first gentleman,
bedeman,
boothman,
hackneyman, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Dutch koopman, from koopen (“to buy”). See cope, chapman. See: Dutch Nouns '
koopman'.