chopchurch

Questions

What does chopchurch mean?

An exchanger of benefices; one of a class of secular priests who trafficked in ecclesiastical benefices.

Where does chopchurch come from?

From chop + church. See chop (“to barter”).

How to pronounce chopchurch

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