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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

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.

[O.Sc. chop, chope, earliest quot. 1519, rarer chap, 1647 (D.O.S.T.); for change of vowel, see P.L.D. § 54. The ch pronunciation may be due to the influence of Chapman, which is, however, from a different root.]

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