cope
Part of speech: verb
noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French couperder.
English cope
From Middle English coupen, from Old French coper, couper (“to strike, to cut”). The noun use went mainstream around 2020.
Inflected forms:
form: copes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: cope
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: cope
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: coped
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: cope
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: copest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: coped
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: copedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: copes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: copeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: coped
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: cope
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: coped
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: cope
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: coped
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: cope
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: coping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: copes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.
Phyllida Barlow, the sculptor representing the UK at the Venice Biennale, has said that while it may have taken the art world decades to pay attention to her work, the timing of her recognition was perfect, adding: “20 years ago, I wouldn’t have coped.”
From transport to zoos: how UK services coped in the sweltering heat [title]
gloss: To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
pos: verb
gloss: To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
pos: verb
examples: the beak and talons should be closely coped
gloss: A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure a hopeless situation.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: There was some public grousing about the number of white supremacists attempting to recruit, however; some incels argued that white supremacy was just another "cope"–just another self-deluding attempt to cover over the grim truth of the blackpill.
My only 2 copes for the past 3 years have been food & the internet/surfing. Both of these copes have only hurt me further as I have addictions to both sugar and the internet now and have isolated myself further and further into the oblivion.
Just as it sounds, a Gymcel is an incel who goes to the gym a lot, which in their mind is a cope.
When those of us with W-2 income say the ultrawealthy are all miserable anyway, that’s cope. When some late-1950s Americans nitpicked the reporting on Sputnik because they couldn’t believe the Soviet Union launched a satellite first — that, according to the writer Jeet Heer, was “a pathetic display of cope.”
gloss: An expression of spite towards someone who suffered a setback.
pos: intj
tags: derogatory
examples: "The other guy cheated, I had no chance!" "Cope."
gloss: A contemptuous dismissal, implying that someone should deal with some problem on their own and that the speaker will not engage any further.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
derogatory
Derived words: cope and seethe
cope and stick
cope chisel
coper
cope with
coping saw
dyscopia
noncoping
uncoping
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