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Chalk-Full
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Chock-Full
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Chuck-Full
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Choke-Full
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Chalk-Full or Chock-Full or Chuck-Full or Choke-Full :
Originally a person or thing stuffed to the point of choking was “choke-full.”
In modern speech this expression has become “chock-full,” or in less formal American English, “chuck-full.”
Chalk has nothing to do with it.
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