a. Also 7 -falne. [f. CHOP sb.2 + FALLEN.] With the lower jaw fallen, hanging down, or shrunk; fig., dejected, dispirited, miserable, crest-fallen; = CHAP-FALLEN.

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1602.  Shaks., Ham., V. i. 212. Where be your Jibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs?… Quite chopfalne.

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1711.  Brit. Apollo, III. No. 139. 3/2. Thy chop-fallen Face.

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1742.  R. Blair, Grave, 20. Alas! how Chop-fall’n now?

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1789.  J. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Expost. Ode, vii. Wks. 1812, II. 530. In piteous chop-fall’n plight.

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1816.  Scott, Antiq., xxiii. Sir Arthur … looked extremely embarrassed, and, to use a vulgar but expressive phrase, chop-fallen.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. vi. i. Most chopfallen, blue, enter the National Agents.

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