Learn English word CHOCKABLOCK and increase your English vocabulary
Learn English word CHOCKABLOCK and increase your English vocabulary
By: Suparno Bhattachayrra
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Suparno Bhattachayrra
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Learn English word Chockablock and increase your English vocabulary
Do you know the history and correct usage of the rare English word Chockablock?
In this learn English through weird and wonderful English class, I am going to show you the beauty of this weird and useful word of Chockablock.
Chockablock is an adjective and pronounce as “CHAH-kuh-blahk”
Learn English word Chockablock – What is Chockablock?
Increase your English vocabulary
Learn English word Chockablock – English vocabulary tips:
- 1 : brought close together
- 2 : very full
Learn English word Chockablock – Synonyms of Parabolic
Learn English word Chockablock synonyms
English vocabulary tips:
Synonyms:
- brimming
- loaded
- brimful
- bursting
- chock-full
- filled to the brim
- jammed
- overflowing
- packed
- stuffed
Learn English word Chockablock – Where is Chockablock comes from?
Learn English word Chockablock and increase your English vocabulary
Learn English word Chockablock – English vocabulary tips:
- Chockablock started out as a nautical term. A block is a metal or wooden case with one or more pulleys inside. Sometimes, two or more blocks are used as part of a rope and pulley system called a “block and tackle” to provide a mechanical advantage—as, for example, when hoisting a sail on a traditional sailing ship. When the rope is pulled as far as it will go, the blocks are tight together and are said to be chockablock.
- Non-nautical types associated the chock in chockablock with chock-full, which goes back to Middle English chokkefull, meaning “full to the limit” (a figurative use of “full to choking”). We thus gave chockablock the additional meaning “filled up.” Chockablock can also be an adverb meaning “as close or as completely as possible,” as in “families living chockablock” or the seemingly redundant “chockablock full.”
Learn English word Chockablock – How to use Chockablock in a sentence?
Learn English word Chockablock – English vocabulary tips:
- At once there is a parabolic storm of snowballs.
- The small roads are chock-a-block with traffic.
- It was chock-a-block in town today .
- The shelves were chock-a-block with souvenirs and ornaments.
- The streets were chock-a-block .
- Paris was chock-a-block with tourists.
- Our events and happenings calendar is ‘ chock-a-block ‘ all year round.
- Now the box is empty and Timothy is chock-a-block full of chocolates.
- Exhibition floors were chock-a-block with racing and sports cars.
- Back then, the whole river was chock-a-block with thousands of boats transporting a whole myriad of goods to be traded by the merchants who had set up shop in that row of buildings on the riverbank.
- The shelves were chock-a-block with ornaments.
- Best of all were the three libraries, which were chock-a-block with rare and ancient books.
- At six in the morning the trades men’s entrance had been chock-a-block with fishermen, and the kitchen resembled Billingsgate.
- Like other Thatcherite creations, the Enterprise Allowance Scheme is chock-a-block with buzzwords whose connection with reality is, at best, half-baked.
- We will not settle for the 4-color brochure, for web sites chock-a-block with eye candy but lacking any substance.
- Aerial photographs showed huge camps in southern England packed with tanks, artillery and supplies, while ports around the British coast were chock-a-block with ships and landing craft.
- The belief that a city will be expensive and chock-a-block with sports fans can deter visitors.
- If anybody else comes, don’t let them in. The room is chock-a-block already.
- However, there is a phenomenon I found that every time a big event or big news happens, editors mailboxes are chock-a-block with the articles which on this topic in a period of time.
WAOSHAO – Nowadays it means very busy where I’m from. For example, you shouldn’t go to the center on St. Patrick’s Day because it’s always chockablock (seen sometimes as chock-a-block). Edit: to clarify, I mean busy in terms of many people being present.
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Have fun as you learn with these weird and wonderful English words! Please add Chockablock and other weird and wonderful words to your vocabulary now.
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Suparno Bhattachayrra
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