chop-fallen, a.
(ˈtʃɒpˌfɔːlən)
Also 7 -falne.
[f. chop n.2 + fallen.]
With the lower jaw fallen, hanging down, or shrunk; fig., dejected, dispirited, miserable, crest-fallen; = chap-fallen.
| 1602 Shakes. Ham. v. i. 212 Where be your Jibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs?.. Quite chopfalne. 1711 Brit. Apollo III. No. 139. 3/2 Thy chop-fallen Face. 1742 R. Blair Grave 305 Alas, how chop-fallen now! 1789 J. Wolcott (P. Pindar) Expost. Ode vii. Wks. 1812 II. 530 In piteous chop-fall'n plight. 1816 Scott Antiq. xxiii, Sir Arthur..looked extremely embarrassed, and, to use a vulgar but expressive phrase, chop-fallen. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. vi. i, Most chopfallen, blue, enter the National Agents. |