chopping

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ

Verb

chopping

  1. present participle and gerund of chop

Noun

chopping (plural choppings)

  1. The action by which something is chopped; the act of assailing something with chops.
    • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 43:
      As soon as this danger was appreciated there followed a nervous smashing and chopping of triffids everywhere, until it occurred to someone that all that was necessary to make them harmless was the removal of the actual stinging weapon.

Derived terms

Adjective

chopping (comparative more chopping, superlative most chopping)

  1. Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.
    a chopping sea
  2. (obsolete) stout; large; plump
    • a. 1730, Elijah Fenton, The Widow's Wile:
      Yet some prolific planet smil'd, / And gave the pair a chopping child […]
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