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adjective
chockfull, Chock-full  adj.  Quite full; full to capacity; choke-full; as, chowder chock-full of clams.
Synonyms: chockablock(predicate), chockful(predicate), choke-full(predicate), chuck-full(predicate), cram full.






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"Chockfull" Quotes from Famous Books



... tennis champions, football-players, rowing-men, polo-players, planters, African explorers, big-game hunters, ex-revenue-officers, and Indian-fighters, besides any number of others who have led the wildest kinds of life, all chock-full of stories, and ready to fire 'em off at a touch of the trigger. Teddy hasn't come yet, and so I haven't been able to do anything for you; but you must trot right out, all the same, and join our mess. ...
— "Forward, March" - A Tale of the Spanish-American War • Kirk Munroe

... from the morass of materialism, but he relapses into a pathological mysticism which ends in a sanitarium for nervous troubles. The marquis is a Mephisto; he is not without a trace of idealism; altogether a baffling nature, Faust-like, and as chock-full of humour as an egg is full of meat. He goes to smash. His plans are checkmated. His beloved deserts him for the enemy. His wife commits suicide. His life threatened, and his liberty precarious, he takes ten thousand marks from Consul Casimir, ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker

... and if they didn't watch mighty close I'd get them too. But the worst of all was, that I could not tell them anything about Government. I tried to speak about something, and I cared very little what, until I choked up as bad as if my mouth had been jamm'd and cramm'd chock-full of dry mush. There the people stood, listening all the while, with their eyes, mouths, and ears all open to catch ...
— David Crockett: His Life and Adventures • John S. C. Abbott



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