# choco
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɒkəʊ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒkəʊ

### Noun

choco (countable and uncountable, plural chocos)
* Clipping of chocolate.
** 1991, Jean Paré, Cakes, page 64:CHOCO MAYO CAKE In this chocolate cake, mayonnaise is substituted for the butter. Good.
** 1992, USAF [United States Air Force] Dental Investigation Service, Dental Items of Significance, page 5:Vision is a 2.7% sodium-fluoride containing prophylaxis paste available in 12 oz. jars or boxes of 225 individual cups. Three flavors (fruit punch, cool mint, or choco-mint) are available.
** 2017, Siddharth Jayakumar, Umasree Raghunath, Simply Being Sidds!, page 180:She used to make choco pudding only for me whenever I went.
** 2018, Thomas Ogden, The Hands of Gravity and Chance, page 15:“D, you’ve had a weak spot for hot chocolate since you were small. You used to call it ‘choco-treat.’”
* (countable, Australia, obsolete) A militiaman or conscript; chocolate soldier. [1940s]
** 1942, [James Andrew] Tip Kelaher, The Digger Hat and Other Verses:I've a letter here to hand, Saying Chockos, Yanks and Refugees Have overrun the land.
** 1945, Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, page 152:In the second war, militiamen and conscripts generally were called chocos, […] in a tribute to them the Sydney “Sun” headed a leader on 2 September 1942: “Chocos with Hard Centres”.
* (countable, Australia, slang) An army reservist.
* (countable, Australia, slang) A person with dark skin tone. [from 1980s]
** 1985, Sir Les Patterson [Barry Humphries], The Traveller’s Tool, page 89:Our ethnic minorities whether they be oil slicks, chockos or slopies have certainly given a new dimension to the Australian businessman’s lunch.
** 1993 [1987], Kathy Lette, Girl’s Night Out, page 128:And it’s better than ending up with the latest dag her Mum’s lined up. This one's called Petro. He’s a big choc, you know really woggy
** 2000, Ian Bone, Tin Soldiers, page 112:‘I reckon we’ll call you Choco,’ said the Rat. “With – that tan of yours.’

#### 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
* mint choco

### Anagrams

* cooch, hocco

## Dutch
### Etymology

Shortenings of compounds with chocolade (“chocolate”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃoː.koː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cho‧co

### Noun

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

* chocopasta

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Debated. Perhaps from choca (“cowbell”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɔkʊ/

#### Noun

choco m (plural chocos)
* cuttlefish
    Synonyms: chopo, sibia, xiba

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃokʊ/

#### Adjective

choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas)
* broody
* stale
    Antonym: fresco
* (of water) stagnant

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

choco
* first-person singular present indicative of chocar

### References

* 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
* ↑ Pensado, José Luis, Messner, Dieter (2003) “choca”, in Bachiller Olea: Vocabulos gallegos escuros: lo que quieren decir (Cadernos de Lingua: anexos; 7)‎, A Coruña: Real Academia Galega / Galaxia, →ISBN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “clueca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃo.ku/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃo.ku/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃo.ko/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʃo.ku/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʃo.ku/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃo.ku/
* Rhymes: -oku
* Hyphenation: cho‧co

#### Noun

choco m (plural chocos, metaphonic)
* (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: /ˈʃo.ku/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃo.ku/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃo.ko/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʃo.ku/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʃo.ku/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃo.ku/
* Rhymes: -oku
* Hyphenation: cho‧co

#### Adjective

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃɔ.ku/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃɔ.ku/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃɔ.ko/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʃɔ.ku/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʃɔ.ku/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɔ.ku/
* Rhymes: -ɔku
* Hyphenation: cho‧co

#### Verb

choco
* first-person singular present indicative of chocar (“to brood”)
* first-person singular present indicative of chocar (“to collide”)

### References

* ↑ “choco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃoko/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ko]
* Rhymes: -oko
* Syllabification: cho‧co

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

choco (feminine choca, masculine plural chocos, feminine plural chocas)
* (Chile) with unclothed arms

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

choco m (plural chocos)
* (Spain) any of a number of species of squid or cuttlefish
    Synonyms: sepia, jibia, cachón
* (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 choco sentado afuera.There was a blind person sitting outside.

#### Adjective

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

* chocos con habas

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

choco
* first-person singular present indicative of chocar

### Further reading

* “choco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10