chop logic
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterized by equivocation or by overly complex or specious argumentation; improperly reasoned.
noun
A logic chopper: one who makes confusing or specious arguments, especially arguments involving equivocation.
Countable; Obsolete
verb
To make an argument which is illogical, especially one which is overly complex or which improperly uses fine or clever distinctions; to equivocate.
Example Sentences
- "Many of the jokes are far past saving and a good bit of the chop logic word play is tedious word work."
- "Mere chop-logic!—you have nothing to say."
- ""Up in his ivory tower, the editor of the Times will at last realize that the American people will not be bulldozed, regimented and stripped of their suffrage by fine phrases, chop logic, invitations to the millennium, and the jaded ambitions of indispensable men.""
- "How can one explain the hypocrisy, chop logic and outright lying now being mustered daily in defence of hunting with hounds?"
- "How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this? 'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;' And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you, Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds, But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next."
- "Vngracious childe I warrant him, harke how hee chops logicke with his mother"
Usage
Inflected Forms
chop-logic (alternative)
choplogic (alternative)
chop logics (plural)
chops logic (present, singular)
chopping logic (participle, present)
chopped logic (participle, past)
chopped logic (past)
Phrases
logic chopping