choco

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɒkəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkəʊ

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

• 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.

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

• cooch, hocco

Shortenings of compounds with chocolade (“chocolate”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃoː.koː/

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• Hyphenation: cho‧co

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

• chocopasta

Debated. Perhaps from choca (“cowbell”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔkʊ/

choco m (plural chocos)

1. cuttlefish

   Synonyms: chopo, sibia, xiba

Probably onomatopoeic, from *clocca, voice of a brood hen.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃokʊ/

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

1. broody
2. stale

   Antonym: fresco

3. (of water) stagnant

choco

1. first-person singular present indicative of chocar

• 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

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cluccus, metathesis of *cuclus, from Latin cucullus (“hood”).^[1] Compare Galician and Spanish choco.

• Rhymes: -oku
• Hyphenation: cho‧co

choco m (plural chocos, metaphonic)

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

   Synonyms: sépia, siba

Deverbal from chocar (“to brood”).

• Rhymes: -oku
• Hyphenation: cho‧co

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɔku
• Hyphenation: cho‧co

choco

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

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

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

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

1. (Chile) with unclothed arms

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

choco m (plural chocos)

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

   Synonyms: sepia, jibia, cachón

2. (Chile) mullet (hairstyle)
3. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
4. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) a blind person

   Synonym: ciego

   Había un choco sentado afuera.

   There was a blind person sitting outside.

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

choco

1. first-person singular present indicative of chocar

• “choco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28