What's the difference between chappy and choppy?

Chappy


Definition:

  • () Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is a cheeky chappy side to Mr Duterte that can be engaging.
  • (2) The humans in Chappie take great pleasure in introducing their new friend to art and culture, while encouraging his own efforts to create.
  • (3) However, when Olly Murs releases cheeky-chappy ska-lite single, Hooray!
  • (4) Pitch Strenuous workouts leavened by lots of cheeky-chappie banter.
  • (5) 3.16am BST 4 mins: We're hearing that the referee tonight is something of a red card happy chappy.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Patel, best known for Slumdog Millionaire, plays a scientist who has programmed Chappie with artificial intelligence, and yet the relationship between the robot and his creator is more akin to father and son.
  • (7) Meanwhile March’s Chappie is District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s return to the streets of metropolitan South Africa in the company of a Short Circuit-style sapient robot and Die Antwoord members Yolandi and Ninja.
  • (8) A cheerful chappy Carlosh, looking very like that king the Portuguese threw a bomb at.
  • (9) He stands squarely in the British tradition of cheeky chappies."
  • (10) The audience lap up his cheeky-chappie shtick (in Scotland, we’d call him gallus ), because he’s acknowledged that he’s one of them, and they feel ownership.
  • (11) 11.07pm GMT More on this chappie West Brom have signed, courtesy of publishing sensation Sid Lowe : Sid Lowe (@sidlowe) Thievy to WBA an interesting one.
  • (12) Updated at 7.16pm BST 6.47pm BST Roger Kirkby emails from SoCal: Well me and my stat happy chappies are watching the game in a bar with bloody Mary's and breakfast sandwiches.
  • (13) says Sue Robinson of Hillier nursery, bringing out "Woodland Wilf", a fluorescent pink, pointy-headed chappie with two lurid orange buckets.
  • (14) It can’t always be cheeky fucking chappie and in your face.
  • (15) Now comes the long-awaited Chappie , which promises to be a 21st century Short Circuit – if the cult 1980s action-comedy romp had been set in Johannesburg and co-starred Die Antwoord .
  • (16) We’re charming chappies generally, we’ve made an institution of being nice to people.” • A midlife crisis “I’ve learned how to use the Twitter.” “We’re listening to you.
  • (17) Chappie sees the film-maker back on the streets of South Africa, with a cast that mixes local talent including Die Antwoord’s Yo-Landi Visser with Hollywood stars Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman and Sigourney Weaver.
  • (18) The Prince of Wales, who believes the Luftwaffe did less damage to London than modern architects , has been sniping at One New Change since 2005, when he wrote to the developers, Land Securities, hoping to get Nouvel off the job and have him replaced by one of his "traditionalist" chappies .
  • (19) Before I picked up Moby ’s new memoir, Porcelain , I thought of him as a small, bald, cheeky chappy who made tuneful dance music.
  • (20) When Jackman, playing a mulleted meanie named Vincent, expresses concern that Chappie might be unpredictable, he is presented as a villain rather than the voice of reason.

Choppy


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of cracks.
  • (a.) Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Of course this recovery which is starting is likely to be choppy and uneven.
  • (2) It all amounts to increasing uncertainty at Leeds, the latest squall on their voyage through choppy waters.
  • (3) He directed the paper through choppy waters in its relationship with the Bush administration, earning the then president's wrath with a steady stream of scoops on the US government's use of phone tapping and torture.
  • (4) "This report shows that the recovery will be choppy for economies around the world but confirms, like other independent forecasters including the IMF and Office for Budget Responsibility , that the UK will continue to grow steadily in the years ahead," he added.
  • (5) "Look, there will be choppy waters and there will be Liberal Democrats who are nervous about the figures coming out," a source close to Nick Clegg told the Observer .
  • (6) Poland was never expected to unseat Tusk, but the row threatens to fracture the unity European leaders are seeking in time for the EU’s 60th birthday celebrations at the end of the month and before entering the choppy waters of Brexit talks.
  • (7) And, as we make our way along this choppy recovery, how can we better shield bill payers from price shocks in oil and gas?
  • (8) To produce this fine mist of sea spray artificially, Salter envisages thousands of unmanned yachts zigzagging across the sea, carrying equipment to make very choppy waves, known as Faraday waves.
  • (9) But yes, it will be a choppy period that we'll go through."
  • (10) But if you are in choppy waters you don't change the captain."
  • (11) ‘owl-light’ (Lancashire) fizmer the whispering sound of wind in reeds or grass (Fenland) grimlins the night hours around midsummer when dusk blends into dawn (Orkney) The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape Read more gruffy ground the surface landscape left behind by lead-mining (Somerset) grumma a mirage caused by mist or haze (Shetland) hob-gob a dangerously choppy sea (Suffolk) muxy of land; sticky, miry, muddy (Exmoor) outshifts the fringes and boundaries of a town (Cambridgeshire) roarie-bummlers fast-moving storm clouds (Scots) snow-bones long thin patches of snow still lying after a thaw, often in dips or stream-cuts (Yorkshire) turn-whol a deep and seething pool where two quick streams meet (Cumbria) zwer the whirring sound made by a covey of partridge taking flight (Exmoor)
  • (12) We are headed into very, very choppy waters.” Russia and Trump: the chronicle of a scandal Read more “The pressure brought to bear on Comey could well amount to obstruction of justice depending on the intent and motive,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut.
  • (13) The choppy waters crash into the concrete wall creating a dramatic backdrop.
  • (14) While a double-dip recession remains unlikely, the survey suggests that the risk has increased and that growth looks set to be slow and choppy going forward."
  • (15) It was clear from the beginning, however, that writing was one of the few constants in her choppy existence.
  • (16) On financial markets, investors are gearing up for choppy trading between now and the 23 June vote.
  • (17) But we’re also very clear that there’s much much more that we want and can do to improve the business yet further.” Supermarkets including Tesco are braced for a choppy year ahead, as the sharp fall in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote pushes up the price of imported foods and ingredients.
  • (18) Hence the Godard-influenced vignette-style layering of authentic photos that place the film's events firmly into their historical context, a choppy narrative timeline and, rather more surreally, a talking dog.
  • (19) On currency markets the euro had a choppy day although oil prices rose amid some signs of an improvement in the US economy .
  • (20) Her wealth and breadth of experience will be critical in steering the CBI through choppy political and economic waters, including an EU referendum.” Fairbairn began her career as an economist at the World Bank and then worked as a journalist at the Economist and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. She was also a Downing Street policy adviser from 1995-97 when John Major was prime minister and ITV’s director of strategy between 2007 and 2010.

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