choco

See also: Choco and chocó

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɒkəʊ/

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Noun

choco (plural chocos)

1. Clipping of chocolate.
2. (Australia, slang) A person with dark skin tone.
3. (Australia, obsolete) A militiaman or conscript, short for 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 milk
• choco pie

Anagrams

• cooch, hocco

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Dutch

Etymology

Shortenings of compounds with chocolade (“chocolate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃoː.koː/
• 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

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Galician

Choco ("cuttlefish")

Etymology 1

Debated. Perhaps from choca (“cowbell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔko̝/

Noun

choco m (plural chocos)

1. A cuttlefish.

   Synonyms: chopo, sibia, xiba

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoko̝/

Adjective

1. broody
2. stale

   Antonym: fresco

3. (of water) stagnant

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

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin cucullus (“hood”). Compare Spanish choco, Galician 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/

• Hyphenation: cho‧co

Noun

choco m (plural chocos)

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

   Synonyms: sépia, siba

Etymology 2

From chocar (“to brood”).

Adjective

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

1. (figuratively) dispirited, unenergetic, lethargic

   Synonym: chocho

Verb

choco

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Etymology 3

From chocar (“to collide”).

Verb

choco

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Spanish

Adjective

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

1. (Chile) with unclothed arms

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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Derived terms

• chocos con habas

Verb

choco

1. first-person singular present indicative of chocar

Further reading

• “choco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014