chock-full

[ chok-fool, chuhk- ]

adjective

1. full to the limit; crammed.

chock-full

adjective

1. postpositive completely full

Word History and Origins

Origin of chock-full¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of chock-full¹

C17 choke-full; see choke , full

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

The audience was chock-full of the influential and influencers.

From The Daily Beast

Thus, the SHU was chock full of contraband, because all the x-ray machines were used by the clinics and not the guards.

From The Daily Beast

His mantel is chock full of Oscars and Grammys (three of each).

From The Daily Beast

According to the channel, the new, Western-friendly government in Kiev is chock full of fascists and neo-Nazis.

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

Me and your mother wuz both young, both very much in love, both chock full o' hope and hard day's work.

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

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

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The newspapers got along at last, chock full of war, and the patriotic fever fairly bust out in Baldinsville.

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