different between chock vs chockablock

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??k/
  • Homophone: chalk (cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from Gaulish *'?okka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”)), itself borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Doublet of stock.

Noun

chock (plural chocks)

1. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
2. (nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked)

1. (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.
3. (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.

Derived terms

• unchock

Translations

Derived terms

(Note: chock full is not derived from this word. In fact, it is an alteration of the earlier choke-full, which most likely derives from a variant of the word cheek.)

Adverb

chock (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Entirely; quite.

Translations

Etymology 2

French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).

Noun

chock (plural chocks)

1. (obsolete) An encounter.

Verb

chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked)

1. (obsolete) To encounter.

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked)

1. To make a dull sound.

References

• “chock”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN÷
• chock at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Partridge, Eric (2006): Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English

Swedish

Noun

chock c

1. shock

Declension

Related terms

English

Alternative forms

• chock-a-block
• chock a block
• choc-a-bloc

Etymology

chock + a + block

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??k??bl?k/

Adjective

chockablock (comparative more chockablock, superlative most chockablock)

1. (nautical) (of a ship's hoisting tackle) Having the blocks drawn close together so no further movement is possible, as when the tackle is hauled to the utmost.
2. (by extension) Jammed tightly together; very crowded; completely filled or stuffed.

   Some of Sardinia's gorgeous seaside towns have lately been invaded by builders who erected chockablock housing that catered to middle-income tourists but threatened to spoil the landscape.

Derived terms

• chock
• chocka
• chocker
• chockers
• chokka

Translations

Adverb

chockablock (comparative more chockablock, superlative most chockablock)

1. In a crowded manner; as completely or closely as possible.

   His study had books stacked chockablock on every shelf.

   The meeting hall was chockablock full of angry citizens.

   • 2012, The Economist, Oct 13th 2012, Free exchange: Concrete gains

     AMERICA is full of vast, empty spaces. Europe, by contrast, seems chock-a-block with humanity, its history shaped by a lack of continental elbowroom.

Related terms

• chockful, chockfull, chock-full, chock full