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Chappy vs Choppy - What's the difference?

chappy | choppy |

As adjectives the difference between choppy and chappy

is that choppy is having many small, rough waves while chappy is full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.

As a noun chappy is

a chap; a fellow.

chappy

English

Noun

(chappies)
  • (British, informal) A chap; a fellow.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
  • Chapped, dry.
  • * 1939 , in National Health Review , Volumes 7–9, page 220:
    • The application was followed at once by terrible pain in the wound; furthermore, there appeared a dry and chappy tongue, intolerable thirst, colics, cramplike contractions of the legs and back, and a weak and irregular pulse.
    (Webster 1913)

    choppy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of the surface of water) Having many small, rough waves.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
    • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=17 citation , passage=Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy .}}
  • Discontinuous, intermittent.
    • The sound is choppy in this video.

    See also

    * chops