Wow! I had no idea what chapfallen meant. It's a pun! The OED definition
follows:

(tapfln)  Also 7 -faln(e. [f. CHAP n.2 + FALLEN. A common variant is
CHOP-FALLEN.]
  1. With the chap or lower jaw hanging down, as an effect of extreme
exhaustion or debility, of a wound received, or esp. of death.
  1598 GERARD Herbal I. i. 3 Beasts that be chap-fallen through long
standing in pound. 1609 Ev. Woman in Hum. I. i. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, Her
tung..wagges within her chap-faln jawes. 1621 FLETCHER Wild-G. Chase IV.
iii, Till they be chap-fall'n, and their tongues at peace, Nail'd in their
coffins. a1809 H. COWLEY Bold Stroke 26 That plump face of yours will be
chap-fallen I believe. 1842 TENNYSON Vision of Sin iv. 110 Trooping from
their mouldy dens The chap-fallen circle spreads.

  b. Said of the mouth-piece of a helmet.
  a1700 DRYDEN (J.) A chapfaln beaver loosely hanging by The cloven helm.

  2. fig. Dejected, dispirited; crest-fallen.
  1608 DAY Hum. out of Br. I. i. (1881) 6, I woulde poure Spirit of
life..Into the iawes of chap-falne schollership. a1651 CLEVELAND To Mrs.
K.T. Poems 16 The Chap~falne Puritan. 1794 WOLCOTT (P. Pindar) Rights of
Kings Wks. III. 37 But, if his Nymph unfortunately frowns, Sad, chap fall'n,
lo! he hangs himself, or drowns! 1881 BESANT & RICE Chapl. Fleet I. iv.
(1883) 37 His clerk..stood with staring eyes and open mouth, chap-fallen and
terrified.

  Hence chapfallenly adv.

  1883 R. BROUGHTON Belinda I. I. vii. 112 'You would not like it, of
course?' he says, chapfallenly.


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> Let me see.  [Takes the skull.]  Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio;
> a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on
> his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it
> is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
> not how oft.  Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your
> flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not
> one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen?
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> > Appears before them and with solemn march
> > Goes slow and stately by them.
> > --Horatio in Hamlet.
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> > > I would I knew not why it should be slow'd.
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