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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



... day somehow, struggling against thoughts that would persist in creeping into her mind and stirring up emotions that she was determined to hold in check. Work, she knew, was her only salvation. If she sat idle, thinking, the tears would come in spite of her, and a horrible, choky feeling in her throat. She set her teeth and thumped away at her machine, grimly vowing that Jack Barrow nor any other man should make her ...
— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... matter; this is a sort of dessert. And of course if we have popcorn, we must have lemonade. Popcorn is so choky." ...
— Marjorie's Maytime • Carolyn Wells
... for the atmosphere was hot and choky, Ross bore a hand. Stumbling and slipping, the two lads bore their burden to the companion, and by dint of much ...
— The Submarine Hunters - A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War • Percy F. Westerman


Words linked to "Chokey" :   prison, prison house, choky


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