chopfallen

English

Alternative forms

• chop-fallen

Adjective

chopfallen (comparative more chopfallen, superlative most chopfallen)

1. 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— […]