Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An argumentative, disputatious person.
- noun Disputation; arguing; hair-splitting; over-subtle reasoning: used contemptuously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Jocular One who bandies words or is very argumentative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
chop logic . - noun Alternative spelling of
chop logic .
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Examples
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If they would spend half the time on questions of a practical nature instead of this chop-logic drivel, the world would be better run.
The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992
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"No, that is chop-logic: for words are only transitory noises, whereas man is the child of God, and has an immortal spirit."
Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918
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After the Teacher left, many new doctrines were brought about, and much chop-logic was put into the text-books by those who succeeded Him, but with all their human invention they have never approached the perfection of the motto that He left behind for the corner-stone of good manners.
Observations of a Retired Veteran Tinsley, Henry C 1904
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He must read everything, even such insufferable rot as "Coin's Financial School," and those literary nightmares turned loose in rejoinder -- veritable Rozinantes, each bearing a chop-logic Don Quixote with pasteboard helmet and windmill spear.
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These questions can only be answered by de-forming the impression given by each of these works to present it in the chop-logic language of philosophy.
Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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After the Teacher left, many new doctrines were brought about, and much chop-logic was put into the text-books by those who succeeded Him, but with all their human invention they have never approached the perfection of the motto that He left behind for the corner-stone of good manners.
Observations of a Retired Veteran Henry C. Tinsley 1868
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He invests the term "chop-logic" with the significance of foolery _in excelsis_. [
Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892
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