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▪ I. choky, n. Anglo-Ind.|tʃəʊkɪ|
Also 7 chukey, chocky, 7–9 chowkie, -kee, 9 chokey, choakee.
[Hindī chaukī shed, watch-house, station, lock-up.]
1. A custom or toll station, in India (in quot. 1608 erroneously applied to the toll itself); a station for palankin-bearers, horses, etc., a guard-house; a police-station.
1608Saris in Purchas Pilgr. I. 391 (Y.) The Kings Custome called Chukey. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 100 (Y.) At every gate, stands a Chocky, or Watch to receive Toll. Ibid. 410 A Chowkie, i.e. a Shed where the Customer keeps a Watch to take Custom. 1810Wellington in Gurw. Disp. I. 326 Duties are levied at the different chokeys close to the Island. 1810T. Williamson E. Ind. Vade-Mec. I. 297 (Y.) Chokies or patrol stations. 1845Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (1854) 192 Solitary chowkies.
2. A police ‘station’ or lock-up (in India).
1866Livingstone Jrnl. (1873) I. iii. 77 The idea of the great Mataka in ‘chokee’ made him wince. 1869Times of India 4 Jan., He was taken to the chowkey close by.
b. In this sense also English slang, and by association with choke, variously misused. [Cf. choke n.1 1 b, choker 3.]
1873Slang Dict., Chokey is also very vulgar slang for prison. 1877Besant & Rice Son of Vul. ii. vi. 223 I'll cool his heels in chokee for a month, and warm them on the treadmill afterwards. 1884Daily News 24 Sept. 3/1 Wright..would get two or three days ‘choky’ (i.e. bread and water).
▪ II. choky, a. Now chiefly colloq.|ˈtʃəʊkɪ|
Also choaky, chocky, chokey.
[f. choke v. + -y1.]
1. Apt to choke one who tries to swallow it; harsh, dry, and gritty. Said of fruit, and transf.
1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 459 The sower, rough and choky Peares. 1638Wilkins New World xi. (1707) 91 Keplar..guesses that the Earth there is of a more choaky Soil. 1661K. W. Conf. Charac. (1860) 38 A choaky peare..as bad and ill-savoured as ever. 1662Fuller Worthies, Warwicksh. 115 The Heart but not the Core of England, having nothing Course or Choaky therein. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. x. 297 If it is kept..it becomes dry, and eats harsh and choaky. a1722Lisle Husb. 354 If milk be sour, the cheese..will always eat chocky and never eat fat.
2. Stifling, suffocating.
1690Crowne Eng. Frier iii. 29 The room within is close and choaky.
3. Having or showing tendency to choking.
1857Hughes Tom Brown i. iv, The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. 1859F. E. Paget Curate Cumberworth 71 Daintily picking her way through a somewhat dark and choky shrubbery. |