Choppy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Choppy \Chop"py\, a. [Cf. {Chappy}.]
     1. Full of cracks. "Choppy finger." --Shak.
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     2. [Cf. {Chop} a change.] Rough, with short, tumultuous
        waves; as, a choppy sea.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  choppy
       adj : rough with small waves; "choppy seas"
       [also: {choppiest}, {choppier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  139 Moby Thesaurus words for "choppy":
     bouncy, broken, broken off, bumpy, capricious, careening, catchy,
     changeable, changing, chopped-off, coarse, coarse-grained,
     corrugated, cross-grained, decousu, desultory, deviating,
     deviative, deviatory, different, disconnected, discontinued,
     discontinuous, discrete, disjunctive, disorderly, divaricate,
     divergent, diversified, diversiform, eccentric, episodic, erose,
     erratic, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, grainy, granulated,
     guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, homespun,
     horripilant, immethodical, impulsive, incoherent, inconsistent,
     inconstant, inequal, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted,
     irregular, jagged, jarring, jerky, jogglety, joggling, joggly,
     jolting, jolty, linsey-woolsey, lurching, mercurial, motley,
     mutable, nonconformist, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential,
     nonserial, nonstandard, nonuniform, parenthetic, patchy, pimply,
     pitted, pluralistic, pocky, potholed, ragged, rambling, rank,
     ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled,
     rutted, rutty, scrappy, shagged, shaggy, snatchy, spasmatic,
     spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering,
     suspended, textured, uncertain, unconnected, unequable, unequal,
     uneven, unjoined, unkempt, unlevel, unmethodical, unmetrical,
     unorthodox, unpolished, unrefined, unregular, unrhythmical,
     unsettled, unsmooth, unstable, unsteady, unsuccessive,
     unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variegated, variform, various,
     varying, veering, wandering, wavering, wimpled, wobbling, wobbly