choker

English

sense 1

A portrait of a woman wearing a choker

Etymology

Etymology tree

English choke

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English choker

From choke + -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃəʊkə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoʊkɚ/

• Audio (Australia):

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• Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

Noun

choker (plural chokers)

2. (fashion) A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace or neckerchief, tight to the throat.
   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 128:

     After half a minute or so there was a shuffle of feet outside. The door was opened, and a head appeared. It was a small head with a tweed cap on the top of it. It had a stringy-looking choker beneath and a dark unshavenness across its face.

   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:

     Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.

   • 2010 October 24, Alice Fisher, “Lara Stone: 'I think naughty photoshoots suit my personality'”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     She appears on the 90th anniversary issue of French Vogue wearing nothing but a mask, gloves and a choker – everything but her now iconic gap-toothed pout and impressive cleavage is obscured.

   • 2023 September 26, Jess Cartner-Morley, “Dior opens Paris fashion week with feminist sloganeering on the catwalk”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The words: “Take your hands off when I say no, take your eyes off when I say no” were spelled out on video screens as the first model marched past in loose black layers, a punky choker and black shoes.

3. One who, or that which, chokes or strangles.

   Synonym: strangler

   • 1990, Janet Husband, Jonathan F. Husband, Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series, page 199:

     The Yorkshire Choker, a serial killer who quotes Shakespeare, is pursued by Dalziel and Pascoe.

   1. (road transport) A traffic calming device used to narrow a road and produce a chokepoint.

      Coordinate terms: chicane, splitter

4. One who operates the choke of an engine during ignition.
5. (slang) Any disappointing or upsetting circumstance.

   Synonyms: bummer, downer, pisser

   I lost £100 on the horses today — what a choker!

6. One who performs badly at an important part of a competition because they are nervous, especially when winning.

   The choker tag will always follow the Proteas until we win a trophy — Temba Bavuma

7. A loop of cable fastened around a log to haul it.

Derived terms

• choker chain
• chokered
• choker fan
• chokerman
• hogchoker
• muffin choker
• nigger choker
• white choker

Translations

jewelry or accessory — see also collar

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 項鍊 / 项炼 (zh) (xiàngliàn), 项链 (zh) (xiàngliàn)

• Finnish: panta (fi)
• French: ras-de-cou (fr) m
• Galician: carcán m
• German: Halsband (de) n, Halskette (de) n
• Icelandic: hálsfesti (is) f, melluband n
• Italian: girocollo m, collana (it) f
• Japanese: チョーカー (ja) (chōkā), 首輪 (ja) (くびわ, kubiwa)
• Malay: coker
• Polish: choker (pl) m
• Portuguese: gargantilha f, choker m
• Russian: колье́ (ru) n (kolʹjé), ожере́лье (ru) n (ožerélʹje), цепо́чка (ru) f (cepóčka)
• Spanish: gargantilla (es) f, huallca f
• Swedish: collier (sv) c, choker (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ґіордан (giordan) (traditional type)

one who chokes another — see also strangler

• Bulgarian: удушвач m (udušvač)
• Dutch: wurger (nl) m
• Finnish: kuristaja (fi)
• French: étrangleur (fr)
• Italian: strangolatore (it) m, strangolatrice f
• Polish: dusiciel (pl) m, dusicielka f
• Portuguese: estrangulador (pt) m
• Russian: души́тель (ru) m (dušítelʹ), души́тельница (ru) f (dušítelʹnica)
• Spanish: ahorcador m
• Swedish: kvävare c

one who operates the choke of an engine

slang: disappointing or upsetting circumstance

Anagrams

• Kocher, hocker

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English choke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃo.ke/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophones: chokai, choké, chokée, chokées, chokés, chokez

Verb

choker

1. (Quebec, ambitransitive) to choke
2. (Quebec, figuratively, by extension) to stop, to inhibit, to prevent
3. (slang) to fail, to fumble

Conjugation

Conjugation of choker (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	choker
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chokant /tʃo.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		choké /tʃo.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	choke /tʃok/	chokes /tʃok/	choke /tʃok/	chokons /tʃo.kɔ̃/	chokez /tʃo.ke/	chokent /tʃok/
	imperfect	chokais /tʃo.kɛ/	chokais /tʃo.kɛ/	chokait /tʃo.kɛ/	chokions /tʃo.kjɔ̃/	chokiez /tʃo.kje/	chokaient /tʃo.kɛ/
	past historic2	chokai /tʃo.ke/	chokas /tʃo.ka/	choka /tʃo.ka/	chokâmes /tʃo.kam/	chokâtes /tʃo.kat/	chokèrent /tʃo.kɛʁ/
	future	chokerai /tʃo.kʁe/	chokeras /tʃo.kʁa/	chokera /tʃo.kʁa/	chokerons /tʃo.kʁɔ̃/	chokerez /tʃo.kʁe/	chokeront /tʃo.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chokerais /tʃo.kʁɛ/	chokerais /tʃo.kʁɛ/	chokerait /tʃo.kʁɛ/	chokerions /tʃo.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	chokeriez /tʃo.kə.ʁje/	chokeraient /tʃo.kʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	choke /tʃok/	chokes /tʃok/	choke /tʃok/	chokions /tʃo.kjɔ̃/	chokiez /tʃo.kje/	chokent /tʃok/
	imperfect2	chokasse /tʃo.kas/	chokasses /tʃo.kas/	chokât /tʃo.ka/	chokassions /tʃo.ka.sjɔ̃/	chokassiez /tʃo.ka.sje/	chokassent /tʃo.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	choke /tʃok/	—	chokons /tʃo.kɔ̃/	chokez /tʃo.ke/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

English choke

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English chokerbor.

Spanish choker

Borrowed from English choker.

Noun

choker m

1. choker (necklace)

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English choker.

Noun

choker c

1. a choker

Declension

Declension of choker

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	choker	chokers
	definite	chokern	chokerns
plural	indefinite	chokers	chokers
	definite	chokerna	chokernas

Declension of choker

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	choker	chokers
	definite	chokeren	chokerens
plural	indefinite	chokers	chokers
	definite	chokerna	chokernas