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Definition of Chockful
1. Adjective. Packed full to capacity. "Chowder chockablock with pieces of fish"
Definition of Chockful
1. full to the limit [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chockful
Literary usage of Chockful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1907)
"He was the best fellow in all that goodly circle, and he made a speech so chockful
of sense, humor, fun, love for MIT, and good cheer generally that he was ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"To curvet, and show high spirits, as a horse. PROMPT, adj. Spirited, as a horse.
PUG, n. A quill left in a plucked fowl. " chockful o' pugs." PURE, adj. ..."
3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1920)
"... the best paid ad. man in the country had written those pages— chockful of pep
and pull they were. Glittering, alluring promises they held out—and Jones ..."
4. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"Madera County is chockful of such opportunities. We would like to tell you about
them. It is & tremendously big county and there is room for hundreds of ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"... whilst the lumina of the straight tubes in the pyramid was often chockful of
it There was no blood-destruction in the general circulation. ..."
6. The Bookman (1903)
"He may be anti-everything, and chockful of persiflage, but he is always worth
listening to, for, though he is oftentimes wrong-headed, ..."
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