wellchopped

chopped

[chopt]
adjective
1.
diced, minced, or cut into small bits.
2.
(of an automobile) streamlined; lowered.

Origin:
1540–50

un·chopped, adjective
well-chopped, adjective
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chop
"to cut," mid-14c., perhaps from O.Fr. (Picard) choper, from O.Fr. coper "to cut off," from V.L. *cuppare "to decapitate," infl. by couper "to strike." Meaning "slice of meat" is c.1640; hence, chop-house (1680s).

chop
"shift," O.E. ceapian "to bargain" (see cheap), here with a sense of "changing back and forth."
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Wellchopped is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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chop definition


  1. n.
    a rude remark; a cutting remark. : That was a rotten chop! Take it back!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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