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Hopping vs Chopping - What's the difference?

hopping | chopping |

As nouns the difference between hopping and chopping

is that hopping is (british) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of kent or hopping can be the act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing while chopping is the action by which something is chopped.

As verbs the difference between hopping and chopping

is that hopping is while chopping is .

As an adjective chopping is

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

hopping

English

Etymology 1

Alternative spelling () of

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
  • * Hopping Down in Kent , Alan Bignell (1977).
  • * 1915 , ":
  • *:He took his whole family to a hop-field in Kent, not far from Mrs. Athelny's home, and they spent three weeks hopping .
  • The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent

    • Etymology 2

    to hop

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
  • (countable, physics) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.

    • 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