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- chock (n.)[chock 词源字典]
- 1670s, "lumpy piece of wood," possibly from Old North French choque "a block" (Old French çoche "log," 12c.; Modern French souche "stump, stock, block"), from Gaulish *tsukka "a tree trunk, stump."[chock etymology, chock origin, 英语词源]
- chock (adv.)
- "tightly, close up against," 1799, back formation from chock-full.