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#*: Indeed, her hands—rough, calloused, scaly, and gnarled—were more like that of an old man than an old lady, testifying to her claim that she’d “Don’ don’ mens work, pickin’ an’ '''choppin’''' cotton, puttin’ up fence rows, cuttin’ wood, takin’ keer of a fahm, fuh near sixty-fi’ years.” |
#*: Indeed, her hands—rough, calloused, scaly, and gnarled—were more like that of an old man than an old lady, testifying to her claim that she’d “Don’ don’ mens work, pickin’ an’ '''choppin’''' cotton, puttin’ up fence rows, cuttin’ wood, takin’ keer of a fahm, fuh near sixty-fi’ years.” |
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#* '''2011''', Henry A. Buchanan, ''Alfie and Papa’s Other Boys'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=XA_occpFlnsC&lpg=PA6&dq=%22the%20choppin'%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=%22choppin'%22&f=false page 6]: |
#* '''2011''', Henry A. Buchanan, ''Alfie and Papa’s Other Boys'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=XA_occpFlnsC&lpg=PA6&dq=%22the%20choppin'%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=%22choppin'%22&f=false page 6]: |
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#*: Junior said Papa told him he cut his toe off with the |
#*: Junior said Papa told him he cut his toe off with the choppin’ axe when he was '''choppin’''' wood. |
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#* '''2007''', Jesse Fox Mayshark, ''Post-Pop Cinema'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=QlKh3XzdQ-UC&lpg=PA21&dq=%22choppin'%22%20%22cuttin%22&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q=%22choppin'%22&f=false page 21]: |
#* '''2007''', Jesse Fox Mayshark, ''Post-Pop Cinema'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=QlKh3XzdQ-UC&lpg=PA21&dq=%22choppin'%22%20%22cuttin%22&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q=%22choppin'%22&f=false page 21]: |
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#*: “I wanna see knife-cuttin’, slice-cuttin’, '''choppin’''', blowin’ up,” he says, with a sneer. |
#*: “I wanna see knife-cuttin’, slice-cuttin’, '''choppin’''', blowin’ up,” he says, with a sneer. |
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#* '''2011''', Henry A. Buchanan, ''Alfie and Papa’s Other Boys'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=XA_occpFlnsC&lpg=PA6&dq=%22the%20choppin'%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=%22choppin'%22&f=false page 6]: |
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#*: Junior said Papa told him he cut his toe off with the '''choppin’''' axe when he was choppin’ wood. |
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#* '''2012''', Hillary Fogelson, ''Pale Girl Speaks'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=-Ahga5FdWqIC&lpg=PA109&dq=%22choppin'%22%20%22cuttin%22&pg=PA109#v=onepage&q=%22choppin'%22&f=false page 109]: |
#* '''2012''', Hillary Fogelson, ''Pale Girl Speaks'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=-Ahga5FdWqIC&lpg=PA109&dq=%22choppin'%22%20%22cuttin%22&pg=PA109#v=onepage&q=%22choppin'%22&f=false page 109]: |
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#*: Cryin’ and '''choppin’'''. Cuttin’ and sobbin’. |
#*: Cryin’ and '''choppin’'''. Cuttin’ and sobbin’. |
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Verb
choppin’
- (deprecated use of
|lang=
parameter) Eye dialect spelling of chopping.- 1986, Richard Bauman, Story, performance, and event, page 88:
- We started choppin’ on that tree, and we hadn’t been cuttin’ very long, until I got kinda tired.
- 2007, William J. Jefferson, Dying is the Easy Part, page 98:
- Indeed, her hands—rough, calloused, scaly, and gnarled—were more like that of an old man than an old lady, testifying to her claim that she’d “Don’ don’ mens work, pickin’ an’ choppin’ cotton, puttin’ up fence rows, cuttin’ wood, takin’ keer of a fahm, fuh near sixty-fi’ years.”
- 2011, Henry A. Buchanan, Alfie and Papa’s Other Boys, page 6:
- Junior said Papa told him he cut his toe off with the choppin’ axe when he was choppin’ wood.
- 1986, Richard Bauman, Story, performance, and event, page 88:
Noun
choppin’
- (deprecated use of
|lang=
parameter) Eye dialect spelling of chopping.- 1842, "The Bee-Tree", The Gift, page 52:
- I’ve a good notion to take the fencin’ of it as well as the choppin’.
- 2007, Jesse Fox Mayshark, Post-Pop Cinema, page 21:
- “I wanna see knife-cuttin’, slice-cuttin’, choppin’, blowin’ up,” he says, with a sneer.
- 2011, Henry A. Buchanan, Alfie and Papa’s Other Boys, page 6:
- Junior said Papa told him he cut his toe off with the choppin’ axe when he was choppin’ wood.
- 2012, Hillary Fogelson, Pale Girl Speaks, page 109:
- Cryin’ and choppin’. Cuttin’ and sobbin’.
- 1842, "The Bee-Tree", The Gift, page 52: