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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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¶COUP HUNDED, adj. comb. A misreading, phs. for crop-maned.Sc. 1820 Abd. Jnl. N. & Q. I. 179:
Stolen from Arbroath, a brown, coup hunded switch tailed horse, with a snip in his forehead.