chop – English noun declension

English noun forms of chop

Noun: chop
Singularchop
Pluralchops

Sample Sentences

  • I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.
  • Of the two fried chops served him for breakfast he ate one and gave Edmund the other, and put a buttered sandwich of bread in his pocket against the accidents of travel. [1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 18:]
  • I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut. [1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961:]
  • It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.
  • A karate chop.
  • With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.
  • E, C. McsEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds[.] [1924 October 6, The Examiner, Launceston, page 2, column 6:]
  • It's peak when the mandem spotty
  • I gonna need more than a dot-dot
  • Capisce, got a problem for swinging this chop? [2025 May 1, SH, “Intro” (2:20 from the start):]

Etymology

1. From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic (cf. Swedish tjoff), or a variant of chap (“to become cracked”).
2. Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare also Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.
3. Compare French couper (“to chop”), Ancient Greek κόπτω (kóptō, “to strike, cut”), Swedish and Norwegian kapa, kappa, kabba (“to chop/cut (off)”). See: Old English Nouns '*ċippian'.

Verbs referencing "chop"

English Nouns chump, Dutch Nouns tjap.