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English
Adjective
chopfallen (comparative more chopfallen, superlative most chopfallen)
- 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 , “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number VI, New York, N.Y.: C 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—