choco

See also: Choco and chocó

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɒkəʊ/

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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

Anagrams

• cooch, hocco

Dutch

Etymology

Shortenings of compounds with chocolade (“chocolate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃoː.koː/

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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): /ˈt͡ʃɔko̝/

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): /ˈt͡ʃoko̝/

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

• “choco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “choco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “choco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

Adjective

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

1. (Chile) with unclothed arms

Etymology 2

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 ciego 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

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