different between chowk vs chock

English

Etymology

From Hindi ??? (cauk, “plaza, square, courtyard”), from Sanskrit ?????? (catu?ka, “quadrangular courtyard, crossway”).

Noun

chowk (plural chowks)

1. (India) An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).
2. (India) A marketplace or open area in a city or village.
   • 2015, Ranjita Biswas, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial 2015, p. 61:

     The all-important Jilmil bus was about to arrive at the chowk.

3. (India) A courtyard.

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??uk/

Verb

chowk (third-person singular present chowks, present participle chowkin, past chowkeet, past participle chowkeet)

1. (South Scots) to choke

   Deh chowk on eet!

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

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