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choppy

[chop-ee] Origin

chop·py

[chop-ee]
adjective, -pi·er, -pi·est.
1.
(of the sea, a lake, etc.) forming short, irregular, broken waves.
2.
(of the wind) shifting or changing suddenly or irregularly; variable.
3.
uneven in style or quality or characterized by poorly related parts: The book was a choppy first novel.

Origin:
1595–1605; chop2 + -y1

chop·pi·ly, adverb
chop·pi·ness, noun
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Choppy is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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choppy (ˈtʃɒpɪ)
 
adj , -pier, -piest
(of the sea, weather, etc) fairly rough
 
'choppily
 
adv
 
'choppiness
 
n

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Word Origin & History

choppy
1867 (of seas), from chop (2). Earlier in this sense was chopping (1630s).
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