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Word: chopfallen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...setten on our green downs, neighbors, be a parcel of blessed angels. Hugy gurt baastards they be, twenny feet or more from crown to anklebone, and some of 'em as black as coal. . . ."-thus honest Yokel Mykelborne holding forth in the taproom to his fellow-worthies, who listened chopfallen, goggle-eyed. Such fine and pungent talk was to be had almost any evening in the inn at Marden Fee, and it is the chorus of talk, not the incidental pastoral melodrama you will remember from Author Bullett's book. The story opens in prehistoric England, in the "squat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dialect | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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