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† lyth-coop Obs.
Also 8 dial. lief-coup, 9 dial. litcop.
[Perh. adopted (with change of sense) from Du. lijfkoop, in MDu. also litcoop, liefcoop, a luck-penny on the conclusion of a bargain. The Du. forms are prob. affected by popular etymology; cf. G. leitkauf of the same meaning, believed to be f. leit (= Goth. leiþus) ale + kauf purchase.]
An auction of household goods.
1681Hickeringill Char. Sham Plotter Wks. 1716 I. 213 He changes his Oaths, as Chapmen come, or (as at a Lyth-Coop) for—who bids more? 1736Lewis Hist. Thanet (ed. 2) 37 Lief-coup, lieue-chepe, a Sale or Market of Goods in the Place where they stand. [The form lieue-chepe appears to be merely Lewis's way of indicating what he supposes to be the etymology of lief-coup.] 1887Kent. Gloss., Lief-coup. Ibid., Litcop, same as Lief-coup. |