choppy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

choppy
    adj 1: marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose" [syn:
           {choppy}, {jerky}]
    2: rough with small waves; "choppy seas"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Choppy \Chop"py\, a. [Cf. {Chappy}.]
   1. Full of cracks. "Choppy finger." --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. [Cf. {Chop} a change.] Rough, with short, tumultuous
      waves; as, a choppy sea.
      [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

139 Moby Thesaurus words for "choppy":
      bouncy, broken, broken off, bumpy, capricious, careening, catchy,
      changeable, changing, chopped-off, coarse, coarse-grained,
      corrugated, cross-grained, decousu, desultory, deviating,
      deviative, deviatory, different, disconnected, discontinued,
      discontinuous, discrete, disjunctive, disorderly, divaricate,
      divergent, diversified, diversiform, eccentric, episodic, erose,
      erratic, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, grainy, granulated,
      guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, homespun,
      horripilant, immethodical, impulsive, incoherent, inconsistent,
      inconstant, inequal, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted,
      irregular, jagged, jarring, jerky, jogglety, joggling, joggly,
      jolting, jolty, linsey-woolsey, lurching, mercurial, motley,
      mutable, nonconformist, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential,
      nonserial, nonstandard, nonuniform, parenthetic, patchy, pimply,
      pitted, pluralistic, pocky, potholed, ragged, rambling, rank,
      ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled,
      rutted, rutty, scrappy, shagged, shaggy, snatchy, spasmatic,
      spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering,
      suspended, textured, uncertain, unconnected, unequable, unequal,
      uneven, unjoined, unkempt, unlevel, unmethodical, unmetrical,
      unorthodox, unpolished, unrefined, unregular, unrhythmical,
      unsettled, unsmooth, unstable, unsteady, unsuccessive,
      unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variegated, variform, various,
      varying, veering, wandering, wavering, wimpled, wobbling, wobbly