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chock-full

[ chok-foo l, chuhk- ]

/ ˈtʃɒkˈfʊl, ˈtʃʌk- /

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adjective

full to the limit; crammed.

Also chock-ful, chuck-full, choke-full.

Origin of chock-full

1350–1400; Middle English chokke-fulle, equivalent to chokke (< ?) + fulle full¹

Words nearby chock-full

choc-ice, choc., choccy, chock, chock-a-block, chock-full, chockablock, chocker, chockstone, choco, chocoholic

Example sentences from the Web for chock-full

After a decade of managing the Borden home, Wilber is chock-full of stories of hauntings and paranormal sightings.

Would You Stay in Lizzie Borden’s Ax-Murder House? |Nina Strochlic |October 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The audience was chock-full of the influential and influencers.

Gay Activist David Mixner: I Mercy Killed 8 People |Tim Teeman |October 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The premise is this: turkey is chock-full of a soporific essential amino acid, tryptophan, one of the 22 essential amino acids.

Eat Turkey All You Want! It’s Not Going to Put You to Sleep |Kent Sepkowitz |November 22, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
The car is chock-full of safety features, apparently in response to high numbers of fatalities on Libyan roads.

Muammar Gaddafi's 25 Strangest Moments |David A. Graham |February 23, 2011 |DAILY BEAST

But when a fellow's heart is chock-full, it's hard to shut down on it sometimes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 |Various
When I see the fat envelopes coming I know they're going to be chock-full of the things I've happened to be thinking about.

The Tree of Heaven |May Sinclair
"Seems to me this buildin' is chock-full of referees," said he.

The Croxley Master: A Great Tale Of The Prize Ring |Arthur Conan Doyle
And I'm a fool—and a slob—and a mutt-head—even when I'm not chock-full of lightning, as you call it!

Little Eve Edgarton |Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Was she not, rather, clever, chock-full of the secret wisdom and the secret cruelty of sex?

The Tree of Heaven |May Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for chock-full

chock-full

choke-full or chuck-full

adjective

(postpositive) completely full

Word Origin for chock-full

C17 choke-full; see choke, full