▪ I. loppy, a.1 Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈlɒpɪ)
[f. lop n.2 + -y.]
Full of or infested with ‘lops’ or fleas.
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 220/2 Loppy, pulicosus. A Loppy place, pulicetum. 1876 Whitby Gloss. s.v. Lopping, Loppy, infested with fleas. 1886 S.W. Linc. Gloss., Loppy. |
▪ II. loppy, a.2
(ˈlɒpɪ)
[f. lop v.2 + -y.]
That hangs loosely; limp.
| 1855 S. Brooks Aspen Crt. II. viii. 106 He would even put on the same smeared and loppy shirt-collar three mornings in succession. 1893 E. Custer Tenting 163 The droop of his [a dog's] head was rendered even more ‘loppy’ by the tongue, which dropped outside the sagging jaw. |
▪ III. loppy, a.3
(ˈlɒpɪ)
[f. lop v.3 + -y.]
Of the sea: ‘Lumpy’, ‘choppy’; cf. lopping ppl. a.3
| 1883 Pall Mall G. 17 May 3/2 The Channel was some⁓what loppy, as usual. 1891 J. H. Pearce Esther Pentreath iv. ix, The sea was getting ‘loppy’ in the crowded little harbour. |
▪ IV. loppy, n. Austral. slang.
(ˈlɒpɪ)
[Prob. from loppy a.1]
A handyman on rural stations.
| 1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Oct. 14/3 A few more Western Queensland slang words... In a shearing shed: The boss is the ‘finger’, the shearers the ‘brutes’, the rouseabouts ‘leathernecks’, ‘spoonbills’, ‘loppies’ or ‘Jacks’. 1933 Ibid. 8 Feb. 21 The loppies, who are meek and spry To shearers and the rest, Are perky chaps when I am by. |