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Chockful

[chok-fool, chuhk-] Origin

chock-full

[chok-fool, chuhk-]
adjective
full to the limit; crammed.
Also, chock-ful, chuck-full, choke-full.


Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English chokke-fulle, equivalent to chokke (< ?) + fulle full1
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Chockful is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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chock-full
c.1400, chokkeful, possibly from choke "cheek." Or it may be from O.Fr. choquier "collide, thrust." Chock-a-block is nautical, said of two blocks of tackle run so closely they touch.
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