Stout; lusty; plump; bouncing.

Running in short, irregular, broken, and interrupted waves, such as those caused by the wind blowing in a direction opposite to that of a strong current, or by the combination of different systems of waves: as, a chopping sea. Also choppy.

noun. A corruption of chopine.

noun. Act of cutting by strokes.

noun. a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc.

noun. a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.

adjective. Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.

adjective. Stout or plump; large.

verb. Present participle of chop.

noun. The action by which something is chopped.

""Charles hasn't been to Oxford for nothing," said his mother, laughing and looking at Mary; "this is what I call chopping logic!""

copping  cropping  dropping  flopping  hopping  

bobbling  bobbly  cockling  large  loppy  

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