Noun: chopine
| Singular | chopine |
| Plural | chopines |
Sample Sentences
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Byrlady your Ladyſhip is neerer Heauen then when I ſaw you laſt, by the altitude of a Choppine. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 263, column 2, lines 364-365:]
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He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine […] [1922 February, James Joyce, “[9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like chopine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French chopine, diminutive of chope + -ine. Doublet of chopin. See: French Nouns '
chopine'.