choco

See also: Choco and chocó

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɒkəʊ/

Noun

choco (plural chocos)

  1. (Australia, slang) A person with dark skin tone.
  2. (Australia, obsolete) A militiaman or conscript, short for chocolate soldier.
  3. (Australia, slang) An army reservist.
    • 1942 September 2, 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

  • 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.

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Galician

Choco ("cuttlefish")

Etymology 1

Debated. Perhaps from choca (“cowbell”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔko̝/

Noun

choco m (plural chocos)

  1. cuttlefish
    Synonyms: chopo, sibia, xiba

Etymology 2

Probably onomatopoeic, from *clocca, voice of a brood hen.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃoko̝/

Adjective

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

  1. broody
  2. rotten
  3. (of water) stagnant

References

  1. ↑ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. clueca.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From chocar.

Verb

choco

  1. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of chocar

Etymology 2

From Latin cucullus (“hood”). Compare Spanish choco, Galician choco.

Noun

choco m (plural chocos)

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

Spanish

Adjective

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

  1. (Chile) with unclothed arms

Noun

choco m (plural chocos)

  1. cuttlefish

Verb

choco

  1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of chocar.
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