Adjective: chockablock
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more chockablock |
| Superlative | most chockablock |
Sample Sentences
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Dance music is chockablock with anonymous artists, but few have concealed themselves with quite the dedication of the Knife. [2009 March 27, Alexis Petridis, “Electronic review: Fever Ray, Fever Ray”, in The Guardian:]
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Haberman’s book is chockablock with scoops, comprehensively leaked to the press before publication, but what singles it out from the competition is its perceptiveness about Trump’s character and the way his private vices became public menaces. [2022 October 9, Peter Conrad, “Confidence Man: The Making of Trump and the Breaking of America review […] ”, in The Observer:]
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Fish is chockablock full of protein. [2024 March 18, Allison Aubrey, “Millions of women are 'under-muscled.' These foods help build strength”, in NPR:]
Adjectives inflected like chockablock
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From chock + -a- + block.