chock

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• Received-Pronunciation: /tʃɒk/
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• General-American: /t͡ʃɑk/
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• homophone: chalk (cot–caught merger)
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• rhymes with -ɒk
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• CMU ARPABET: CH AA1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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 borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Doublet of stock.

Onomatopoeic.

* As an English surname, variant of Shock. * As a German surname, Americanized from Zschoche, Zschocke, from the placename Zsochochau in Saxony or Tschocke in Silesia, of Slavic origin. * As a Slovene surname, Americanized from Čok, from obsolete čok (“tree stump”). * As a Chinese surname, Romanizaed from 卓 (zhuó), see Zhuo.

French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• French: carrément — Translations
• French: en plein — Translations
• Bulgarian: клин (klin) — object used as a wedge or filler
• Catalan: tascó — object used as a wedge or filler
• Catalan: falca — object used as a wedge or filler
• Chinese Mandarin: 輪擋 /轮挡 — object used as a wedge or filler
• Czech: zarážka — object used as a wedge or filler
• Czech: klín — object used as a wedge or filler
• Czech: špalek — object used as a wedge or filler
• Esperanto: kojno — object used as a wedge or filler
• Estonian: tõkisking — object used as a wedge or filler
• Finnish: pönkkä — object used as a wedge or filler
• Finnish: tönkkä — object used as a wedge or filler
• Finnish: kiila — object used as a wedge or filler
• French: coinceur — object used as a wedge or filler
• Galician: calzo — object used as a wedge or filler
• German: Radvorleger — object used as a wedge or filler
• Italian: calzatoia — object used as a wedge or filler
• Japanese: 手歯止め — object used as a wedge or filler
• Japanese: チョック — object used as a wedge or filler
• Persian: قاچ چرخ — object used as a wedge or filler
• Polish: klin — object used as a wedge or filler
• Portuguese: calço — object used as a wedge or filler
• Russian: клин (klin) — object used as a wedge or filler
• Russian: упо́р для колёс (upór dlja koljós) — object used as a wedge or filler
• Russian: башма́к (bašmák) — object used as a wedge or filler
• Slovak: zarážka — object used as a wedge or filler
• Slovak: klin — object used as a wedge or filler
• Spanish: calzo — object used as a wedge or filler
• Spanish: calza — object used as a wedge or filler
• Spanish: calce — object used as a wedge or filler
• Spanish: alza — object used as a wedge or filler
• Turkish: takoz — object used as a wedge or filler
• Ottoman Turkish: طاقوز (takoz) — object used as a wedge or filler
• Yoruba: ṣọ́ọ̀kì — object used as a wedge or filler
• Bulgarian: кнехт (kneht) — nautical: fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line
• French: remplissage — nautical: fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line
• French: tin — nautical: fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line
• Bulgarian: запирам (zapiram) — to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block
• Bulgarian: слагам клин (slagam klin) — to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block
• Catalan: tasconar — to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block
• Galician: calzar — to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block
• Spanish: engalgar — to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block
• Yoruba: ṣọ́ọ̀kì — to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block