chock
noun
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L22083 on Wikidata ↗verb
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L22085 on Wikidata ↗adverb
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L333595 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /tʃɒk/ / /t͡ʃɑk/
adv
Etymology: From 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 borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Doublet of stock.
- Entirely; quite.
“Tom Hickey, our good-humored, blundering cabin-boy, decorated since poor Schubert's death with the dignities of cook, is in that little dirty cot on the starboard side; the rest are bedded in rows, Mr. Brooks and myself chock aft.”
“Merchant vessels usually hoist a little on the halyards, so as to clear the sail from the top, then belay them and get the lee sheet chock home; then haul home the weather sheet, shivering the sail by the braces to help it home, and hoist on the halyards until the leaches are well taut, taking a turn with the braces, if the wind is fresh, and slacking them as the yard goes up.”
intj
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
- Representing a dull sound.
“This chair, which had been purchased by a certain man as a birthday present for his wife, developed an annoying “chock, chock” noise after it had been used a few days.”
“With his eyes closed, Al could hear her drop the pinecone rhythmically on the tile, chock chock chock chock, the bass, her little toenails clicking a tune around it. Didn’t he deserve a really big horse?”
name
Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Shock. * As a German surname, Americanized from Zschoche, Zschocke, from the placename Zsochochau in Saxony or Tschocke in Silesia, of Slavic origin. * As a Slovene surname, Americanized from Čok, from obsolete čok (“tree stump”). * As a Chinese surname, Romanizaed from 卓 (zhuó), see Zhuo.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).
- An encounter.
verb
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
- To make a dull sound.
“After some delay an apparently new chair was returned to the purchaser, and the incident seemed closed. Within forty-eight hours, however, it began to “chock” like the first chair, which it really was. The dealer had merely glued it up again and returned it.”
“She saw him hurry to the door, heard the bolt chock. He tried the latch.”