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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
choppy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
choppy (=with a lot of small waves)
▪ The wind was starting to pick up and the sea was becoming choppy.
▪ The yachts bobbed around on the choppy sea.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sea
▪ The more experienced may try Villa-Flotilla in Yalikavak, where high wind courses give the confidence needed to cope with choppy seas.
▪ A storm rages that night, bringing heavy winds and choppy seas.
▪ Note the changing patterns of the tides, their rhythmic waves, choppy seas, fast-flowing currents and white crests.
▪ Small buildings, like small boats on a choppy sea, are rocked especially hard by their passing.
▪ The hard shale was now gone and the flat lake had become a choppy sea of sand and rock.
▪ At Juara, there's a welcome breeze, a choppy sea and very little else.
water
▪ Many a swimming pool fund has run into choppy water and adventure playground appeals turned into assault courses!
▪ Across the choppy water from them stands Billingsgate Fish Market, smartened up to tone with the neighbourhood.
▪ Indeed, even in the fast choppy water the practised eye can spot his prey a hundred yards away.
▪ Good timing of the turn makes an enormous difference, especially in choppy water.
▪ It served as excuse for a quick survey of the choppy water below.
waters
▪ The giant fund-raising event took place on Saturday but the choppy waters caused some competitors to capsize.
▪ The town planning ship ran into choppy waters and it remains in uncertain seas.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ music with a choppy rhythm
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A storm rages that night, bringing heavy winds and choppy seas.
▪ Drifting out of an open window, riding over a choppy bassline, comes the distinctive voice of Omar.
▪ Small buildings, like small boats on a choppy sea, are rocked especially hard by their passing.
▪ Some of this was done no doubt to keep control in choppy political waters.
▪ The giant fund-raising event took place on Saturday but the choppy waters caused some competitors to capsize.
▪ The laughter tumbled out of him in choppy spurts.
▪ The town planning ship ran into choppy waters and it remains in uncertain seas.
▪ The wind there was sharp from the east, the North Sea steel-grey and choppy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Choppy

Choppy \Chop"py\, a. [Cf. Chappy.]

  1. Full of cracks. ``Choppy finger.''
    --Shak.

  2. [Cf. Chop a change.] Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
choppy

1830 (of seas), from chop (v.2) + -y (2). Earlier in this sense was chopping (1630s).

Wiktionary
choppy

a. (context of the surface of water English) Having many small, rough waves.

WordNet
choppy

  1. adj. rough with small waves; "choppy seas"

  2. [also: choppiest, choppier]

Wikipedia
Choppy

Choppy may refer to:

  • Choppy scene, a film-making term
  • Adams-Wilson Choppy, an American home-built helicopter design

Usage examples of "choppy".

Another couple sat, knees up, on a futon against the wall, a light-skinned black with a large Afro, faint mustache, and mild eyes, and his girlfriend, a somewhat older-looking woman with choppy short black-dyed hair who, when she spoke, disconcertingly revealed a German accent.

We are naturally shocked at the clothing of a grave subject in anapestic metre, or the treatment of a long and lofty theme in short, choppy lines.

A soul-shaking agony surrounded the spinning girls, and scream after scream ripped through my heart, and the water turned choppy from the jerks of their bodies.

I turned to Yuki now as she spoke, her voice choppy with agitation, her face corrugated with worry.

Inside, I observed that because of the inherent design of the house and the additions the Ramseys had made, the flow from one part of the home to another was choppy.

Immediately she was assailed by a choppy montage of overlit travel footage.

White seagulls soared against the grey sky, dived, and skimmed the whitecaps of the choppy Narrows.

The lead dancers are Cariocan women, scantily clad beauties gyrating beneath giant headdresses, their bare breasts flashing with sequins pasted on their nipples, their thighs glistening with aromatic oils rubbed on in the staging area by friends and lovers even while their lovely hips moved with the first fast, choppy beats of the sexual rhythm.

Beyond the turn the Mother widened, and her waters became choppy, and, as she approached a vast expanse of water, she rolled and spumed.

Then, with a final wave of the hand, he climbed down into the row-boat that was bobbing ready beneath the quay, and the sailors began to pull across the choppy water toward the Sirin.

J As the Nieva broadened out into a wide estuary, the fresh breeze became a gusting wind and the calm river waters became choppy, crested with churning foam.

Mariana came on deck the sky was gray and overcast, the sea choppy with a few whitecaps.

Innisbore, a body of water so vast that even if sun had broken through the clouds long enough to burn away the mists that lay in ragged strips across her choppy surface, the far shores would still have been out of view.

The swamp waters had turned choppy and rough, and it was all the Druid could do to keep from being tossed overboard.

She watches as the sailors tie up the ship, then bridge the choppy water with a narrow gangplank.