chop

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{{11}}chop (1) "to cut," mid-14c., perhaps from O.Fr. (Picard) choper (O.Fr. coper "to cut, cut off," 12c., Mod.Fr. couper), from V.L. *cuppare "to behead," from a root meaning "head," but influenced in O.Fr. by couper "to strike." Related: Chopped; chopping. Meaning "slice of meat" is mid-17c.; hence, chop-house (1680s) "a mean house of entertainment, where provision ready dressed is sold" [Johnson].
{{12}}chop (2) "shift quickly," 16c., earlier "to bargain" (early 15c.), ultimately from O.E. ceapian "to bargain" (see CHEAP (Cf. cheap)); here with a sense of "changing back and forth," probably from common expressions such as to chop and change "barter." To chop logic is recorded from 1570s.
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]

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