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chopses

chopses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chopse.

Meaning of chopse

Verb

chopse (third-person singular simple present chopses, present participle chopsing, simple past and past participle chopsed)

  1. (Midlands, Wales, Bermuda) To loudly insult and subject to verbal abuse; to berate.
    • If you're being cheeky to someone in Wales, they'll probably ask the following: "Are you chopsing at me?"2015 August 25, Ben Travis, “Educating Cardiff: Five essential Welsh slang phrases you need to know”, in Evening Standard, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2022
  2. (Midlands, Wales, Bermuda) To chatter and gossip excessively.
    • Less chopsing, more chopping: hair salon launches a 'quiet chair'2015 November 30, “(headline)”, in ITV News Wales, archived from the original on 10 May 2019

Questions about chopses

What is chopses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chopses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chopse.

Words near chopses in the dictionary

  1. chops off
  2. chops out
  3. chops up
  4. chopse
  5. chopsed
  6. chopses
  7. chopshop
  8. chopshops
  9. chopsing
  10. chopsockies
  11. chopsocky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chopses (page history and authors); chopse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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