chopfallen
English
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[edit]chopfallen (comparative more chopfallen, superlative most chopfallen)
- Synonym of chapfallen
- 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. VI, letter 113:
- One chop-fallen runner trod upon the heels of another, each with a repetition of his diversified nothings […] .
- 1820 March 5, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number VI, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 102:
- Something, however, I fear me, must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chopfallen— […]