Chops
.The face, is allied to the Latin caput, the head; Greek κεγαλ-oζ, Anglo-Saxon ceafel, the snout; in the plural, the cheeks. We talk of a “pig’s chap.”
The face, is allied to the Latin caput, the head; Greek κεγαλ-oζ, Anglo-Saxon ceafel, the snout; in the plural, the cheeks. We talk of a “pig’s chap.”
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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.