chock

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tʃɒk/ (General American) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑk/ Homophone: chalk (cot–caught merger) Rhymes: -ɒk === Etymology 1 === From Middle English *chokke (possibly attested in Middle English chokkefull), from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from an Old Northern French variant of Old French çouche, çouche (“block, log”), of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tsukka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”), itself borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Doublet of stock. ==== Noun ==== chock (plural chocks) Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling. (nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked) (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch. (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity. (nautical) To insert a line in a chock. ===== Derived terms ===== unchock ===== Derived terms ===== (Note: chock full is not derived from this word. In fact, it is an alteration of the earlier choke-full, which most likely derives from a variant of the word cheek.) ===== Translations ===== ==== Adverb ==== chock (not comparable) (nautical) Entirely; quite. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb). ==== Noun ==== chock (plural chocks) (obsolete) An encounter. ==== Verb ==== chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked) (obsolete) To encounter. === Etymology 3 === Onomatopoeic. ==== Interjection ==== chock Representing a dull sound. ==== Verb ==== chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked) To make a dull sound. === References === “chock”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.÷ “chock”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. Partridge, Eric (2006): Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English == Swedish == === Etymology === From French choc. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔk === Noun === chock c shock ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === “chock”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “chock”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “chock”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)