chock-full

[ chok-fool, chuhk- ]
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adjective
  1. full to the limit; crammed.

Origin of chock-full

1
1350–1400; Middle English chokke-fulle, equivalent to chokke (< ?) + fullefull1

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How to use chock-full in a sentence

  • It seems to me that when a fellow is chock-full of anything he oughtn't to feel much hunger.

    Two Boys in Wyoming | Edward S. Ellis
  • Me and your mother wuz both young, both very much in love, both chock full o' hope and hard day's work.

  • The harbour was chock-full of forlorn-looking craft, which had evidently lain idle for a long while.

  • He is chock full of tact, the smoothest old boy I ever fell up against.

    The Pillar of Light | Louis Tracy
  • The newspapers got along at last, chock full of war, and the patriotic fever fairly bust out in Baldinsville.

    The Complete Works of Artemus Ward | Charles Farrar Browne (AKA Artemus Ward)

British Dictionary definitions for chock-full

chock-full

adjective
  1. (postpositive) completely full

Origin of chock-full

1
C17 choke-full; see choke, full

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