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

• 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): /ˈt͡ʃɔko̝/

choco m (plural chocos)

1. cuttlefish

   Synonyms: chopo, sibia, xiba

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoko̝/

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

• “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.

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

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

1. (Chile) with unclothed arms

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.

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

choco

1. first-person singular present indicative of chocar

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