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chopfallen en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Synonym of chapfallen.
    • 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— […] 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:
    • One chop-fallen runner trod upon the heels of another, each with a repetition of his diversified nothings […]. 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. VI, letter 113:

Forms

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chop-fallen alternative lexicographic
most chopfallen Degree=Sup lexicographic
more chopfallen Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

chapfallen