--- title: "How to pronounce \"chocka\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"chocka\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/lAcS52QgIuQ/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/chocka" --- # How to pronounce "chocka" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/tʃɒkkæ/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **cho·cka** ## Meaning & Usage ### ADJECTIVE - Filled to capacity. - *Example*: "When I lived with my mum, the only thing we ever argued about was her food shopping addiction. Every single cupboard was chocka, the fridge was chocka, the freezer was chocka." ### Example Sentences - "When I lived with my mum, the only thing we ever argued about was her food shopping addiction. Every single cupboard was chocka, the fridge was chocka, the freezer was chocka." - "The walls are chockablock with pictures of politicians and celebrities, all smiling the same Peking duck induced smile." - "the most chockablock full of these parking spots, these receptors." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (8 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "chocka" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "Anthony Myint: "I spent a month eating my way around China, but my favorite Peking duck is in an old strip mall in the suburbs of Washington D. C. at Peking Gourmet Inn. The walls are chockablock with pictures of politicians and celebrities, all smiling the same Peking duck induced smile. Ducks are carved tableside by lifelong professionals who expertly unfurl broad swaths of crispy skin and slices of tender meat." - **Watch at 7:50**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAcS52QgIuQ&t=470s) ### Example 2 *Accent: US* > "among all the brain areas that bind testosterone, that where testosterone can park and create effects that the amygdala is among the most chockablock full of these parking spots, these receptors. I realize there's a lot here, but how should we think about the role of testosterone in the amygdala given that the engagement of the amygdala is fundamental" - **Watch at 11:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtmwtjOoSYU&t=685s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "through behavioral mechanisms, nutrition, supplementation, and many other things as well. It's chockablock full of protocols and tools for stress. The vagus nerve, however, is responsible for emotion and the way it does that is to pool, to aggregate the conditions" - **Watch at 101:43**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9QKc-iFoY&t=6103s) ### Example 4 > "The staging renaissance gets started when fifteenth-century Italians rediscover Vitruvius’s treatise De Architectura, which was written around 15 BCE and is basically the Poetics of architecture, chockablock with set design protips. The discovery of single-point perspective painting transformed theater sets, too, helping them look three-dimensional." - **Watch at 4:35**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U96m8inKt24&t=275s) ### Example 5 *Accent: US* > "There's also the book "Jaws" by my colleagues, Paul Ehrlich and Sandra Kahn, with a foreword by Jared Diamond and an introduction by Robert Sapolsky from Stanford. So, that's a book chockablock with heavy hitter authors that describes how being a nasal breather is beneficial for jaw structure, for immune system function, et cetera" - **Watch at 30:03**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwz8JprPeMc&t=1803s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "the activity of neurons in what's called the substantia nigra VTA. The substantia nigra VTA is a very rich source of dopamine and that's because it's very chockablock full of dopamine neurons. It's an area of the brain that is, perhaps, the richest source of dopamine neurons." - **Watch at 47:43**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVRyzYB9JSY&t=2863s) ### Example 7 *Accent: US* > "It's involved in moderation and reward, et cetera. But it turns out the area postrema, this vomit center in the brain stem, is chockablock full of dopamine receptors. And if dopamine levels go too high, it can actually trigger vomiting." - **Watch at 49:12**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15R2pMqU2ok&t=2952s) ### Example 8 *Accent: US* > "That, of course, but also because of dopamine's salient role in creating this bias towards exteroception. When somebody takes a drug, with it increases dopamine, or they're chockablock full of dopamine. They tend, I want to highlight 'tend' because this is, I'm really generalizing here, but they tend to focus on outward goals," - **Watch at 29:35**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtmwtjOoSYU&t=1775s) ## How to Pronounce "chocka" - **Syllables**: cho · cka - **IPA**: `/tʃɒkkæ/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [chacha](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/chacha), [chachka](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/chachka), [chack](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/chack), [chacks](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/chacks), [chacma](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/chacma) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “chocka”? “chocka” is pronounced /tʃɒkkæ/ (cho · cka). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “chocka”? “chocka” has 2 syllables: cho · cka. ### What does “chocka” mean? Filled to capacity. ### How can I hear “chocka” used in real sentences? This page has 8 real-world video examples of “chocka” with synchronized subtitles. 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