chokidar (chokidar)

[ No solicitations could induce him, on a hot day and in a high wind, to move out of the choking cloud of dust which overhung the line of march. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., xvi. 2. Obstructed or indistinct in utterance; gasping: as, to speak with a choking voice. chokyl (cho'ki), a . [Le prop.chokey ; chokel + -yl.] 1. Tending to choke or suffocate: as, the air of the room was quite choky .-2. Inclined to choke, as with emotion. The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 4.