choco

See also: Choco and chocó

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɒkəʊ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒkəʊ

Noun

choco (plural chocos)

1. Clipping of chocolate.
2. (Australia, slang) A person with dark skin tone.
3. (Australia, obsolete) A militiaman or conscript; chocolate soldier.
4. (Australia, slang) An army reservist.
   • September 2 1942, Chocos with Hard Centres, in the Sydney Sun, quoted in 1966 by Sidney J. Baker in The Australian Language, second edition, chapter VIII, section 3, page 167

Usage notes

• The slang term for a dark-skinned person may be used by such people themselves (as in the Australian television series Pizza), but is likely to be considered racist when used by others.

Derived terms

• choco bar
• choco lab
• choco milk
• choco pie
• choco almond
• mint choco

Anagrams

• cooch, hocco

Dutch

Etymology

Shortenings of compounds with chocolade (“chocolate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃoː.koː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cho‧co

Noun

choco m (plural choco's, diminutive chocootje n)

1. solid chocolate; a bar or piece of chocolate
2. a chocolate milk, coco

   Synonyms: cacaomelk, chocolade, chocolademelk

3. a chocolate spread, a spread eaten on bread

   Synonyms: chocoladepasta, chocopasta

4. (Belgium, offensive, ethnic slur) Term of abuse for a person of black-African descent.
5. (Belgium, offensive, vulgar) a homosexual man

Derived terms

• chocopasta

Galician

Choco ("cuttlefish")

Etymology 1

Debated. Perhaps from choca (“cowbell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔkʊ/

Noun

choco m (plural chocos)

1. cuttlefish

   Synonyms: chopo, sibia, xiba

Etymology 2

Probably onomatopoeic, from *clocca, voice of a brood hen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃokʊ/

Adjective

choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas)

1. broody
2. stale

   Antonym: fresco

3. (of water) stagnant

Etymology 3

Verb

choco

1. first-person singular present indicative of chocar

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “choco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “choco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “choco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cluccus, metathesis of *cuclus, from Latin cucullus (“hood”). Compare Galician and Spanish choco.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ko/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ku/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ku/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃo.ku/

• Rhymes: -oku
• Hyphenation: cho‧co

Noun

choco m (plural chocos, metaphonic)

1. (zoology) cuttlefish (any of various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus Sepia)

   Synonyms: sépia, siba

Etymology 2

Deverbal from chocar (“to brood”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ko/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ku/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ku/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃo.ku/

• Rhymes: -oku
• Hyphenation: cho‧co

Adjective

choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas, metaphonic)

1. fertile (of an egg)
2. brooding (of a bird)
3. rotten (of an egg)
4. (figuratively) rotten, damaged
5. (figuratively) flat (of a carbonated drink)
6. (figuratively) dispirited, unenergetic, lethargic

   Synonym: chocho

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔ.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔ.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔ.ko/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔ.ku/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔ.ku/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔ.ku/

• Rhymes: -ɔku
• Hyphenation: cho‧co

Verb

choco

1. first-person singular present indicative of chocar (“to brood”)
2. first-person singular present indicative of chocar (“to collide”)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoko/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ko]
• Rhymes: -oko
• Syllabification: cho‧co

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas)

1. (Chile) with unclothed arms

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

choco m (plural chocos)

1. (Spain) any of a number of species of squid or cuttlefish

   Synonyms: sepia, jibia, cachón

2. (Chile) mullet (hairstyle)
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4. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) a blind person

   Synonym: ciego

   Había un choco sentado afuera.

   There was a blind person sitting outside.

Adjective

choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) blind.

   Synonym: ciego

   Ella me vio con su ojo choco.

   She saw me with her blind eye

Derived terms

• chocos con habas

 

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

choco

1. first-person singular present indicative of chocar

Further reading

• “choco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16