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English word origin

Etymology of chock

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

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗
noun

Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling. · 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.

adv

Entirely; quite.

verb

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch. · To fill up, as a cavity. · To insert a line in a chock.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

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 a metathetic borrowing of Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stick, stock, piece of wood”). Doublet of stock.

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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗
noun

An encounter.

verb

To encounter.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).

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Source etymology 3

Original entry ↗
verb

To make a dull sound.

intj

Representing a dull sound.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Onomatopoeic.

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