North. dial. and Sc. The hip or fruit of the wild-rose.
1820. Blackw. Mag., Nov., 201 (Jam.). ‘A hale regiment o’ guid aik cudgels, every ane o’ them as like my ane as ae choup is like to another.’
1847. Halliwell, Choups, hips, the fruit of briars. North.
1872. J. P. Morris, Maggie Bell, in Lancash. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Her cheeks were rosy as a choup.
1881. J. Shaw, in Gd. Words, Oct., 716. Choops, that is the heps of the wild rose.
1886. Britten & H., Plant-n.
