chopin

See also: Chopin

English

Etymology

Variant of chopine, borrowed from French chopine, diminutive of chope + -in.

Noun

chopin (plural chopins)

1. (obsolete) A liquid unit of measure of almost half a pint.
   • 1742, Virgil, “Appendix to the Georgicks”, in James Hamilton, transl., Virgil’s Pastorals Translated into English Prose; as also His Georgicks, […], Edinburgh: Printed by W. Cheyne, […]; [s]old by J. Traill and G. Crawford, […]; and by J. Barry […], →OCLC, page 43:

     I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.

Translations

liquid unit of measure

• Scottish Gaelic: seipinn f

Anagrams

• -phonic, Pichon, cophin, phonic, pincho