Also koppie, kopjie, koppje. [Du. kopje, dim. of kop head, COP sb.2 (The dim. ending -je has usually sunk in colloquial Du. to -i.)] In South Africa: A small hill.
1881. Contemp. Rev., Feb., 226. The insurgents strongly posted in a rocky ‘koppie.’
1883. Olive Schreiner, Afr. Farm, viii. (1890), 216. There at the foot of the ‘kopje’ goes a Kaffir.
1899. Athenæum, 30 Sept., 450/1. The gallant deeds of the kopje and the karroo.
Comb. 1900. Daily Tel., 25 Jan., 5/2. A stretch of kopje-strewn, river-cut country.
