choco
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
choco (plural chocos)
- Clipping of chocolate.
- (Australia, slang) A person with dark skin tone.
- (Australia, obsolete) A militiaman or conscript; chocolate soldier.
- (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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Shortenings of compounds with chocolade (“chocolate”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
choco m (plural choco's, diminutive chocootje n)
- Solid chocolate; a bar or piece of chocolate.
- A chocolate milk, coco.
- Synonyms: cacaomelk, chocolade, chocolademelk
- A chocolate spread, a spread eaten on bread.
- Synonyms: chocoladepasta, chocopasta
- (Belgium, offensive, ethnic slur) Term of abuse for a person of black-African descent.
- (Belgium, offensive, vulgar) a homosexual man
Derived terms[edit]
Galician[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Debated. Perhaps from choca (“cowbell”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
choco m (plural chocos)
Etymology 2[edit]
Probably onomatopoeic, from *clocca, voice of a brood hen.[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas)
Etymology 3[edit]
Verb[edit]
choco
References[edit]
- “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.
- ^ Pensado, José Luis, Messner, Dieter (2003) “choca”, in Bachiller Olea: Vocabulos gallegos escuros: lo que quieren decir (Cadernos de Lingua: anexos; 7)[1], A Coruña: Real Academia Galega / Galaxia, →ISBN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “clueca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cluccus, metathesis of *cuclus, from Latin cucullus (“hood”).[1] Compare Galician and Spanish choco.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -oku
- Hyphenation: cho‧co
Noun[edit]
choco m (plural chocos, metaphonic)
- (zoology) cuttlefish (any of various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus Sepia)
Etymology 2[edit]
Deverbal from chocar (“to brood”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -oku
- Hyphenation: cho‧co
Adjective[edit]
choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas, metaphonic)
- fertile (of an egg)
- brooding (of a bird)
- rotten (of an egg)
- (figuratively) rotten, damaged
- (figuratively) flat (of a carbonated drink)
- (figuratively) dispirited, unenergetic, lethargic
- Synonym: chocho
Etymology 3[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɔku
- Hyphenation: cho‧co
Verb[edit]
choco
- first-person singular present indicative of chocar (“to brood”)
- first-person singular present indicative of chocar (“to collide”)
References[edit]
- ^ “choco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Adjective[edit]
choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
choco m (plural chocos)
- (Spain) any of a number of species of squid or cuttlefish
- (Chile) mullet (hairstyle)
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}
. - (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) a blind person
- Synonym: ciego
- Había un ciego sentado afuera.
- There was a blind person sitting outside.
Adjective[edit]
choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas)
- (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) blind.
- Synonym: ciego
- Ella me vio con su ojo choco.
- She saw me with her blind eye
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
Verb[edit]
choco
Further reading[edit]
- “choco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɒkəʊ
- Rhymes:English/ɒkəʊ/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English clippings
- Australian English
- English slang
- English terms with obsolete senses
- en:People
- en:Chocolate
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Belgian Dutch
- Dutch offensive terms
- Dutch ethnic slurs
- Dutch vulgarities
- Galician terms with unknown etymologies
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- Galician adjectives
- Galician non-lemma forms
- Galician verb forms
- gl:Mollusks
- Portuguese terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/oku
- Rhymes:Portuguese/oku/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese nouns with metaphony
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Zoology
- Portuguese deverbals
- Portuguese adjectives
- Portuguese adjectives with metaphony
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɔku
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɔku/2 syllables
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- pt:Seafood
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/oko
- Rhymes:Spanish/oko/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish adjectives
- Chilean Spanish
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Peninsular Spanish
- Spanish colloquialisms
- Salvadorian Spanish
- Guatemalan Spanish
- Honduran Spanish
- Spanish terms with usage examples
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish verb forms
- es:Cephalopods