chock
意味
- (たる・車輪などの下にはさむ)止め木,くさび
- (ボートを止める)止めくさび,;(甲板上にボートを載せる)敷き台,まくら木
- …をくさび(止め木)で止める
例文
The freezer is chock-full of ice cream that I bought in bulk.
大量に買いこんだアイスクリームで冷凍室がぎゅうぎゅうだ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
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.