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Chokey   Listen
adjective
Chokey, Choky  adj.  
1.
Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.
2.
Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. "A deep and choky voice." "The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey."





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"Chokey" Quotes from Famous Books



... was just thinkin' how to du it, m'm. 'Twid be a brave notion to putt the men in chokey, and slit the women's tongues-like, same as they du in outlandish places, ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... the Green Forest. He had just seen Mr. and Mrs. Quack start toward the Big River for a brief visit before leaving on their long, difficult journey to the far-away Southland. Farewells are always rather sad, and this particular farewell had left Peter with a lump in his throat,—a queer, choky feeling. ...
— The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer • Thornton W. Burgess
... woman in white?" asked a middle-aged gentleman seated by the querist's side, with orders in his button, and several under-waistcoats, and a great, choky, white stock. ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Audrey in a choky voice. "Is she as bad as that!" She knew what it all meant for Phipps. If Granny Carlyle died, her home of forty years was gone from her. For the first time in her life Audrey realised what we all come to realise as we grow older—that the sorrowfulness of death is not with those who ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch


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