choppingadj.

chopping (adj.)"large and thriving," 1560s, past participle adjective from chop (v.). Compare strapping, whopping in similar sense. chopping. An epithet frequently applied to infants, by way of ludicrous commendation: imagined by Skinner to signify lusty, from cas Sax. by others to mean a child that would bring money at a market. Perhaps a greedy, hungry child, likely to live. [Johnson]