chapfallen
English
Etymology
chap + fallen; see chap (“jaw”).
Adjective
chapfallen (comparative more chapfallen, superlative most chapfallen)
- Crestfallen, dejected.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: Printed by I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, OCLC 760858814, [Act V, scene i]:
- Alas poore Yoricke, […] where be your gibes now? your gamboles? your ſongs? your flaſhes of merriment, that were wont to ſet the table on a roare, not one now to mocke your owne grinning, quite chopfalne.
- Washington Irving
- […] he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chapfallen […]
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