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Chapping vs Chopping - What's the difference?

chapping | chopping |

As verbs the difference between chapping and chopping

is that chapping is present participle of lang=en while chopping is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun chopping is

the action by which something is chopped.

As an adjective chopping is

shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.

chapping

English

Verb

(head)

    • chopping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action by which something is chopped.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.
    • a chopping sea
  • (obsolete) stout; large; plump
  • * Elijah Fenton
    • Yet some prolific planet smil'd, / And gave the pair a chopping child