Other forms: chokers
A choker is a close-fitting necklace worn at the throat. A velvet choker, wear a choker, a pearl choker.
It sits on the neck rather than hanging, which is the whole definition and the reason for the name. Chokers have come and gone in fashion since at least the eighteenth century. In sport, a choker is somebody who fails under pressure, which is a separate and unkind use of the same word.
1nounchokerA close-fitting necklace worn at the throat.
“She wore a black velvet choker with a small silver pendant.”
choker is a necklace.
Old English
āċēocian — to choke
Middle English
choken
English
choke
English, today
choker
Built from
From choke + -er. choke comes from Middle English choken (also cheken), from earlier acheken, from Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ċēoce, ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA