Green’s Dictionary of Slang

chopping adj.

[SE chopping, vigorous, large, strapping]

lusty, sexually forward.

[UK]Middleton No Wit or Help like a Womans (1657) I i: sir oliv.: I hope to be a Grand-father yet be ’em. sav.: That may you Sir, to marry a chopping Gill with a plump Buttock.
[UK]Fletcher Chances II i: A chopping Child, Man [...] A Lump of Lewdness.
[UK]Webster Cure for a Cuckold I i: Your Boy grows up, and ’tis a chopping lad [...] one of the forward’st infants!
[UK]R. Brome Eng. Moor I iii: Half a dozen chopping Children.
[UK]H. Glapthorne Wit in a Constable V i: To your beds, the’re ready [...] March faire, And get each one a chopping boy by Morning.
[UK]R. L’Estrange Counterfeit Bridegroom II i: You had two chopping boys by your last Wife.
[UK]Buckingham Chances II i: [as cit. c.1617].
[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
[UK]Farquhar Recruiting Officer I i: plume: Is the child a boy or a girl? kite: A chopping boy.
[UK]Spy on Mother Midnight I 16: The good Woman was safely deliver’d of a lusty chopping Boy.
[UK]G. Parker Life’s Painter 130: Bess Tatter, of Hedge-lane, [...] Brought forth a chopping boy.
[UK]M. Leeson Memoirs (1995) III 178: She brought poor Bennett home all the contraband goods, with a chopping boy into the bargain, whom she was delivered of in about two months after her return.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]‘The Christening of Little Joey’ in Corinthian in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 44: Bess Tatter, of Hedge-lane, / To ragman Joeys’ joy, / [...] / Brought forth a chopping boy.