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chock-full

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

Origin:
1350–1400; ME chokke-fulle, equiv. to chokke (< ?) + fulle full 1
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chock-full or chock·full   (chŏk'fŏŏl')
adj.  Full to the limit; as full as possible: a report chock-full of errors.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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