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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1703-1715, 1772, 1850-1924
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‡CHOP, Chope, Chap, n.1 Sc. forms of St.Eng. shop. Known To Bnff.2, Abd. correspondents 1940; Ags.2 c.1875, obsol., Arg.1 (obs.), Kcb.1 1940. Dim. choppie, chopie. [tʃɔp]Abd. 1879 G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie I. i.:
He's no fit company for the likes o' you, 'at his a father an' mither, an' a chop.Bch. 1924 Trans. Buchan Field Club XIII. i. 41:
Ha'e ye ony o' thae black mutchies i' yer choppie?Edb. 1772 R. Fergusson Sc. Poems (1925) 15:
When auld Saunt Giles, at aught o'clock, Gars merchant lowns their chopies lock.Hdg. 1703 Records Sc. Cloth Manuf. (S.H.S. 1905) 344–345:
The makeing of broad cloath and . . . all the parts thereof, from the fleece to the chope.Peb. 1715 A. Pennecuik Descr. of Tweeddale and Sc. Poems 94:
Truth followed Vanity and bled him, When he was in they Taylor's Chap.Arg. c.1850 The Follinash in L. McInnes Dial. S. Kintyre (1936) 30:
Run doon to Penlan Mill . . . And fesh saut gleshans frae the chop And collops off the roun.
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