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Chopfallen

Chopfallen \Chop`fall`en\, a. Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See Chapfallen.

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chopfallen

a. chapfallen

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chopfallen

adj. brought low in spirit; "left us fatigued and deflated spiritually" [syn: chapfallen, crestfallen, deflated]

Usage examples of "chopfallen".

Doone still stood like a chopfallen Lazarus to survey his possible ruination.

I fancied to myself the rural potentate surrounded by his body-guard of butler, pages, and blue-coated serving-men with their badges, while the luckless culprit was brought in, forlorn and chopfallen, in the custody of gamekeepers, huntsmen,, and whippers-in, and followed by a rabble rout of country clowns.

The sound of the explosion was such that the mob inside the pub soon became the mob outside, looking for the gunshot victim but finding instead the drunken chauffeur wandering about the chopfallen car, kicking the good tires as if that might reinvigorate the flat without having to pump.