chock-full: [14] There is more than one theory to account for this word. It occurs in a couple of isolated instances around 1400, as chokkefulle and chekeful, prompting speculation that the first element may be either chock ‘wooden block’, which came from an assumed Old Northern French *choque (thus ‘stuffed full with lumps of wood’) or cheek (thus ‘full up as far as the cheeks’). It resurfaces in the 17th century as choke-ful, which has given rise to the idea that it may originally have meant ‘so full as to choke’. The available evidence seems too scanty to come to a firm conclusion.
c. 1400, chokkeful "crammed full," possibly from choke "cheek" (see cheek (n.)). Or it may be from Old French choquier "collide, crash, hit" (13c., Modern French choquer), which is probably from Germanic (compare Middle Dutch schokken; see shock (n.1)).
双语例句
1. The small roads are chock-a-block with traffic.
条条小路全挤满了车马行人。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The shelves were chock-a-block with ornaments.
架子上堆满了装饰品。
来自《权威词典》
3. The town centre was chock - a - block ( with traffic ).
市中心 ( 车辆 ) 挤得水泄不通.
来自辞典例句
4. Chock the barrel up or else it will roll over.
用塞块塞住圆桶,不然它会滚过去.
来自互联网
5. The road was chock a - block with varieties of vehicles again today.
