Chootah (Anglo-Indian), small, insignificant.
Chop (pidgin and Anglo-Indian), properly, a seal, stamp, or impression. Used to indicate quality, as in "first chop," i.e. stamped or branded, or marked as the best. Hindu, ch'hāp. It is used on the Eastern seas also for certificate, pass, license, signature. Chop-house, a custom-house.
Wang he go to fi'st chop coffin,
To be mand'lin an' chin-chin um!
Chop, to (turf), to beat. Essex dialect, chop, to flog. From chop or chap, to cut.
Another in John Dawson's stable is likely to be very handy here, and that one is Hawthorn, who created such a sensation when she chopped the mighty Salisbury at York the year before last.—Sporting Times.
(Sport), to outstrip, catch.
A certain meet where, after chopping their fox, poor Reynard's carcass was "pinched" by a Brummagem rough.—Bird o' Freedom.
Chop-chop (pidgin), quick, quickly, make haste, look sharp. Cantonese, kăp-kăp; Mandarin, kip-kip. "In the Northern dialects kwai-kwai, quick, quick, is more usual" (Bishop Moule).
That nightey tim begin chop-chop,
One young man walkee, no can stop,
Maskee snow, maskee ice,
He cally flag wit' chop so nice—
Top-side galow!
Chopper, chopping blow (boxing), a short, downward blow with the knuckles, delivered from the elbow. One of the most clumsy, ineffective, and most easily parried blows that could be resorted to. It was nevertheless a favourite with Slack (champion, 1750–60).
Chopper on (printers). A man when miserable or "down in the dumps" is said to have a chopper on.
Chopping girl (old slang), a very young female who exhibits sexual precocity. One who has la cuisse gaie, as the French slang humorously expresses it.
Choppy (American), applied to a broken, hillocky county.
Chops (popular), the mouth. A "wipe in the chops," a blow on the face; "down in the chops," sad. Chops is a nickname given by schoolboys to one who has well-developed maxillaries.
Chōr, chãr (gypsy), grass. Hindu, chara, fodder.
Chore (gypsy), a thief, to steal. "Kai did tute chore adovo?"—"Where did you steal that?" Hindu, chor, a thief.
Chores (American), odd jobs. A "choreman" is a handy man, a Jack of all trades.
Their carpenter was dead, and I am a handy man, so I took his place. Then made a few dollars doing chores around.—The Golden Butterfly.
