different between stuffed vs chockablock

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?ft/
• Rhymes: -?ft

Verb

stuffed

1. simple past tense and past participle of stuff

Adjective

stuffed (comparative more stuffed, superlative most stuffed)

1. Full or packed (with some material or substance).
   • 1997, Philippe Bonnefis, Paul Weidmann (translator), Céline: The Recall of the Birds, p.109:

     Hence, perhaps, the dins Céline deafens us with, in texts more and more stuffed with onomatopoeias.

   • 2008, Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side, p.2:

     She didn?t forget to pack anything, none of those irritating little things that wait till the last moment to pop out of hiding and make her re-open her most stuffed suitcase.

   • 2009, Marsha Collier, eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition, unnumbered page:

     The more stuffed your hard drive, the more Blob-like it becomes.

   • 2009, David Ugba, Awaken the Riches Within: Creating Extraordinary Wealth Using the Powerful Imagination of a Poet, iUniverse, p.96:

     Creating a poetic or extraordinary belief is the simple act of intensifying the mood or atmosphere of your belief and making it more stuffed with the ability or power to come real.

2. (cooking) filled with seasoning

3. (slang) Full after eating.
   • 2002, Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women?s Recovery from Bulimia, p.40:

     Beth says: “I never knew when I was full ?cause I always felt like I didn?t know whether I was hungry or full. My whole life I never knew when I was full or hungry unless I was really stuffed or really starving.”

   • 2009, Jason McCammon, The Ancient Lands: Warrior Quest: Search for the IFA Scepter, unnumbered page:

     “See, huge meal.” Replied Farra. / “Still stuffed.” / “Yes, quite stuffed.”

   • 2009, Swapna Dutta, Geeta Menon (editor), Folk Tales of West Bengal, p.47:

     Allhadi gave a contented yawn and said: / “I have eaten till I am really stuffed / I am full and bloated and so puffed / I am bursting, I am telling you true / I couldn?t eat more if you begged me to.”

4. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Very tired.
   • 2011, Nick Oud, The Hatchling and The Human, Xlibris, p.74:

     ‘Well, you talked me into it,’ said Cornelius. ‘I feel really stuffed. I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.’

5. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
   • 1998, John Marsden, The Night is for Hunting, 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, unnumbered page:

     If the suspension was stuffed already from hitting the concrete base of the fence—and it was—then it was really stuffed by the time we?d gone a kilometre along the railway.

   • 2002, Clare de Vries, Of Cats and Kings, p.174:

     But if you don?t play ball in life, if you don?t go for it with a sincere ‘Go, girrrrl’ rugby-tackle attitude, you?re really stuffed.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• duffest

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