choke-full
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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I have," valiantly: "she has too much of the goddess about her for my fancy: choke-full of dignity and airs, you know, and all that sort of rubbish.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
It is choke-full of all kinds of learning, of the most pungent remarks—a very hoard of sentences and saws, “of vigorous locutions and picturesque phrases, of strong, sound sense, and robust English.”
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
There are two other tanks not much smaller, all choke-full.
From The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
“Certainly; I think there is no doubt that that inlet is the pirates’ head-quarters, and that they are certain to have storehouses there choke-full of plunder.
From By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson by Rainey, W. (William)
So now he begs you to lend him a corn-measure, he must measure his silver money; his corn-measures are all choke-full of gold.”
From Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
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