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Choky

noun
1.
British slang (dated) for a prison.  Synonym: chokey.






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"Choky" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dust don't hurt me. Goin' to return to 't presently. Made on 't! made on 't! Don't see why folks need be so 'fraid on 't! He! he! 'T is pretty choky, though." And he sat down on one of the leather rolls, and held his sides through a hard coughing fit. As the dust slowly subsided, Mercy saw standing far back in the corner, where the bales of leather had hidden it, an old-fashioned clock, ...
— Mercy Philbrick's Choice • Helen Hunt Jackson

... got it to the stairs, and rode down on it like a sled, while everybody worked carrying and throwing things, and Mr. Crow forgot all about his fine new complexion, which began to crack off and scatter until it was all over the floor and stairs. Then pretty soon they all felt so choky from that queer smelly smoke that they went out in the air and piled up their things at a safe distance and stood, waiting for the flames to break out and burn down their big Hollow Tree they had ...
— Hollow Tree Nights and Days • Albert Bigelow Paine



Words linked to "Choky" :   prison, prison house, tight, chokey



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