- cowp
- IScottish Vernacular Dictionarynoun: rubbish dump.Example:"Clean your room up, it looks like a bloody cowp in here"verb: spill, fall over, tip.Example:"Did you cowp mah pint, ya bastard?"IICumbrian Dictionary( v kowp) Fall, e.g. Cowp ower = fall over.(I cowp, you cowped, she is cowping, we are all cowpers.)IIINorth Country (Newcastle) Wordsto barter or exchangeIVMid Ulster Englishto tip over, to fall overFrom Scots "cowp", Middle Scots L-vocalisation with West Central monophthongisation to /o/ betraying the origins of Scottish Planters.
English dialects glossary. 2013.