Reverse Dictionary: CHOKE

ADJECTIVES
► CAZZONING half choking → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FRUMMAGEMED choked, strangled, hanged → 1699 cant, obs.
► MICKLED choked, suffocated, parched with thirst → 1867 Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► PNIGOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of choking → 1991 (Bk.)
► QUACKLE the noise made in choking; the death-rattle → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YOKE a choke hold → 1987 US sl., orig. military sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► UGLYMAN that member of the garrotting team who actually does the choking → M19 sl.

VERBS
► ACHOKE to choke, to suffocate → c1200 obs.
► BECHEKE to choke, to stifle → c1175 obs.
► CHOKE OUT to render someone unconscious through a choke hold that cuts off cerebral blood flow at the carotid artery in the neck; usually applied with a police officer’s baton across the throat → 1985 US sl.
► EFFOCATE to choke, to strangle → 1656 obs.
► GAG to choke on food or foreign matter in the throat → 20C US colloq.
► GUZZLE to choke, to strangle; to choke violently; to throttle; broadly, to murder → 1885 Amer. sl.
► HEMP to choke to death, to hang → L17 sl.
► KECK to choke; to make a choking noise in the throat; to cough → 1878 Eng. dial.
► KECKLE to choke, to cough; to make a noise in the throat while swallowing → 1901 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASKER to choke, to stifle → 1790 Eng. dial.
► MEETH to choke, to breathe with difficulty → 1851 Eng. dial.
► QUACKLE to choke → 1622 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► QUAR to become choked → 1883 Eng. dial.
► QUAWKEN ► QUOCKEN to choke, to suffocate; to vomit → 1781 Eng. dial.
► QUEASOM ► QUEAZEN ► QUEZZEN to choke, to stifle, to smother → 1561 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► QUERKEN ► QUIRKEN to choke, to suffocate, to stifle → c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SCAGGLE to choke, to strangle, to suffocate → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCOMFISH ► SKOMFISH to choke, to suffocate, to stifle; to stop the breath from want of air, from smoke, heat, stench, or the like; to affect or overpower from any of these causes → 1766 Sc.
► THROPPLE to choke, to throttle; to seize by the throat → 1691 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► THWRICKEN to choke with thick smouldering smoke → 1905 Sc. obs. (Bk.)
► WHIRKEN to choke, to suffocate, to stifle → 1611 obs. exc. Eng. dial. obs.
► YOCKEN to choke → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)