chopping
pronunciation
How to pronounce chopping in British English:
UK [tʃɒpɪŋ]
How to pronounce chopping in American English:
US ['tʃɒpɪŋ]
Word Origin
- chopping (adj.)
- "large and thriving," 1560s, past participle adjective from chop (v.). Compare strapping, whopping in similar sense. chopping. An epithet frequently applied to infants, by way of ludicrous commendation: imagined by Skinner to signify lusty, from cas Sax. by others to mean a child that would bring money at a market. Perhaps a greedy, hungry child, likely to live. [Johnson]
Example
- 1. He worked off his anger by chopping wood .
- 2. Park it on the kitchen table while you 're chopping salad .
- 3. Depending on your work set-up , you might like to include a little chopping board and a pocket knife in your work lunch arsenal .
- 4. I was chopping wood when she came back .
- 5. Chopping down the amazon rainforest to make way for crops or cattle has no economic or social benefit for local people in the long term , according to a major new study .