To bandy words; to altercate. Lord Bacon says, “Let not the council chop with the judge.” (See Chop and Change.)
“How now, how now, chop logic! What is this?
‘Proud,ʹ and ‘I thank you,ʹ and ‘I thank you not,ʹ
And yet ‘not proud.ʹ”
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, iii. 5.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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