chokka adj.
1. full to the brim.
Westmorland Gaz. 11 Sept. 8/5: [from Punch] All England has gone crazy with delight in hearing of it. Bedlam is choke full, Hanwell p’raps is chocker. | ||
Amaze Your Friends (2019) 68: ‘Are those places not chocka with bodgies and widgies looking for something to do?’. | (con. late 1950s)||
Indep. on Sun. Real Life 11 July 3: The largest and most important island [...] is chocka with rainforests. | ||
Guardian Guide 26 June–2 July 8: The chart in general is chocka with candyfloss of recent vintage. | ||
Brown Bread in Wengen [ebook] Switzerland is full of them Swiss maids. Chocker. | ||
Lingo 92: chock-a-block – full up [...] is usually shortened to chokka, as in the probably apocryphal words of the air-line clerk to the intending passenger sorry, ocker, the fokka’s chokka. | ||
Grits 302: The pubs’ll be fuckin chocker. | ||
Vatican Bloodbath 108: Double decker buses chocka with gawping tourists. | ||
Empty Wigs (t/s) 192: The Bible may be chocker with prize-winning landfill, but an eye for an eye is the exception. |
2. extremely dissatisfied, unhappy, ‘fed up’.
Gen 1 Sept. 13/1: When Jenny the Wren is fed up with the world she is ‘chokker’. | ||
Gun in My Hand 108: He was terribly unsettled when he came back from the war [...] He used to say he was chokker all the time. | ||
Anatomy of Crime 95: I’ve had this, Paddy. I’m chokka. | ||
(con. WWII) Soldier Erect 87: ‘You’re looking proper brassed off, mucker, isn’t he, Taffy?’ ‘Proper chokka.’. | ||
Submariners Ii i: What’s he so chokker about? | ||
(con. WW2) Heart of Oak [ebook] Christ, they must be bloody chokka — [...] They must be pissed off being up here with the real bloody war, eh?’. |
3. (UK juv.) wonderful, fantastic.
OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 chokker, choc, n. great, wonderful, magic, excellent. |