chock
Entirely; quiteEntirely; quite.
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» Don’t bother with the 7:30 train; it’s always chock-a-block.
Можеш не намагатися сісти у потяг о 7:30; він завжди переповнений. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR
deniko · Tatoeba · CC0Meaning
1 senses(not comparable)Entirely; quite.
- as completely as possible
Examples
14 sentencesDon’t bother with the 7:30 train; it’s always chock-a-block.
Можеш не намагатися сісти у потяг о 7:30; він завжди переповнений. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR
The streets were chock-a-block.
deAuf den Straßen war der Bär los. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
English is a language chock-full of idiomatic expressions.
The harbour was chock-full of vessels of every description.
deDer Hafen war gedrängt voll mit Wasserfahrzeugen jeder Bauart. — samueldora
The harbour was chock-full of boats of every description.
deDer Hafen war gedrängt voll mit Wasserfahrzeugen jeder Bauart. — samueldora
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Middle English *chokke (possibly attested in Middle English chokkefull), from Anglo-NFrom Middle English *chokke (possibly attested in Middle English chokkefull), from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from an Old Northern French variant of Old French çouche, çouche (“block, log”), of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tsukka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”), itself a metathetic borrowing of Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stick, stock, piece of wood”). Doublet of stock.
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