At that time, Chevy, Pontiac and Oldsmobile divisions were all vying for a piece of the Pro Stock market and all three were developing cylinder heads to fit the big-block Chevy since the âcorporate engineâ policy allowed any GM vehicle to use any GM family engine.
5 Answers 5. c.1400, chokkeful âcrammed full,â possibly from choke âcheekâ (see cheek (n.)). Or it may be from Old French choquier âcollide, crash, hitâ [similar to shock]. Middle English chokkeful already had the same meaning as modern chock-full. Both this word and choke âto strangleâ likely derive ultimately from Old English words meaning âjaw, cheek.â The end result is the same: a mouthful. Alternately, chokkeful may derive from a more violent word: forced full. (Wiktionary offers a false etymology based on the kind of chocks used in carpentry and shipbuilding: full up to the chocks, perhaps. However that sense of chock only dates to the 1670s, far too late to influence the Middle English word.)
In certain parts of Ireland the word scut was used to tell off their children. Like feck is the softer version of fuck. Scut would have been used in this way as it was the softer version of shite. Being a lad from the West of Ireland this word was bandied about in my area quite a bit. Scut would have been shortened from scutter which as any farmer will tell you is not a pretty sight out the backside of an afflicted cow (terribly bad liquid diarrhoea). So when your ma was saying 'you're some scut,' 'you little scut,' or 'come here you scut ya,' she was calling you a shit or a shite but in the nice clean way.