chockablockとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

chock + a + block

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɒkəˌblɒk/

形容詞

chockablock (comparative more chockablock, superlative most chockablock)

1. (nautical) (of a ship's hoisting tackle) Having the blocks drawn close together so no further movement is possible, as when the tackle is hauled to the utmost.
2. (by extension) Jammed tightly together; very crowded; completely filled or stuffed.

   Some of Sardinia's gorgeous seaside towns have lately been invaded by builders who erected chockablock housing that catered to middle-income tourists but threatened to spoil the landscape.

派生語

• chock
• chocka
• chocker
• chockers
• chokka

副詞

chockablock (comparative more chockablock, superlative most chockablock)

1. In a crowded manner; as completely or closely as possible.

   His study had books stacked chockablock on every shelf.

   The meeting hall was chockablock full of angry citizens.

   • 2012, The Economist, Oct 13th 2012, Free exchange: Concrete gains

     AMERICA is full of vast, empty spaces. Europe, by contrast, seems chock-a-block with humanity, its history shaped by a lack of continental elbowroom.

関連する語

• chockful, chockfull, chock-full, chock full

副詞

chock a block (comparative more chock a block, superlative most chock a block)

1. Alternative form of chockablock
   • 2010, Sue Allen, Life.....(in General), ISBN 1608603385, page 32:

     The cutlery increasing on the drainer, chock a block, While the sink is overflowing as the dishes run amok!

副詞

chock-a-block (comparative more chock-a-block, superlative most chock-a-block)

1. Alternative spelling of chockablock
   • 1999, Robert Harms, Games Against Nature:

     The first was my experience of motoring, paddling, and poling a dugout canoe through the Equatorial African swamplands that were once inhabited by people who called themselves Nunu and being struck by the astonishing array of micro-environments packed chock-a-block into a region only 40 kilometers long by 20 kilometers wide.

   • 2007, Becky Mercuri, The Great American Hot Dog Book, page 128:

     The Piney Creek General Store in Story, Wyoming, is chock-a-block filled with an enormous range of miscellaneous paraphernalia that includes groceries, gourmet cooking ingredients, beer and wine, cast-iron cookware, and kitschy souvenirs and gifts.

   • 2007, Don Woodland, ‎Simon Bouda, Picking Up the Pieces:

     One room was chock-a-block full, to the ceiling; you couldn't get into that bedroom.

   • 2010, Kevin C. Mills, Sons and Daughters of the Ocean:

     The place is chock-a-block full of old empty bottles on shelves, a collection from around the world.

   • 2012, Michèle Roberts, Ignorance, page 218:

     The quay teemed chock-a-block with porters, officials, clumps of overcoated people under umbrellas.

   • 2013, Robert Barnard, Death and the Chaste Apprentice:

     I've had a feeling ever since this festival started up that one day I was going to get stuck with a case chock-a-block full of arty people.

関連する語

• chock-full

参照

• “chock-a-block” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.