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chock-full (adj.)
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 (cf. Middle Dutch
schokken
; see
shock
(n.1)).