choc

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɒk/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒk
• Homophone: chock

choc (countable and uncountable, plural chocs)

1. (informal) Clipping of chocolate.

   mint choc chip ice cream; a box of chocs

• choc-a-bloc

16th century, from choquer (“to hit, to shock”); influenced by Italian ciocco.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔk

choc m (plural chocs)

1. hit, strike
2. shock (surprise, startling)
3. electrical shock
4. clash
5. episode

• IPA^(key): /tʃɔk/

choc m (plural chocs)

1. (Louisiana) Alternative form of tchoque (“blackbird”)

• “choc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

choc

1. insect

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert, Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence, Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso, Ponce Villanueva, Tereso, Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 93

choc (plural chocs or choches)

1. shock

Unadapted borrowing from French choc.

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk

choc m (invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of shock