cocoa

See also: Cocoa

English

Etymology 1

From Spanish cacao (from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl), by confusion with coco, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/
  • (US) enPR: kōʹkō, IPA(key): /ˈkoʊ.koʊ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
  • Homophone: coco

Noun

cocoa (countable and uncountable, plural cocoas)

  1. The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
  2. An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
  3. (uncountable) A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar
    Do you like cocoa?
  4. (countable) A serving of this drink.
    I like to watch TV with a cocoa.
  5. (countable) a light to medium brown colour
    cocoa colour:  
Quotations

A Food Lover's Companion by Evan Jones (Harper & Row, 1979) includes this poem by Stanley J. Sharpless:

Half past nine - high time for supper;
Cocoa, love? Of course, my dear.
Helen thinks it quite delicious,
John prefers it now to beer....
For they've stumbled on the secret
Of a love that never wanes,
Rapt beneath the tumbled bedclothes,
Cocoa coursing through their veins.
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Adjective

cocoa (not comparable)

  1. Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.
Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

By confusion with cocoa, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.

Noun

cocoa

  1. (dated) Alternative spelling of coco.

Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koko(w)a/

Verb

cocoa

  1. (transitive) To hurt.
  2. (reflexive) To be ill.
  • cocoya

References

  • Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz‎, 2nd electronic ed., Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 87, 119, 231, 242

Spanish

Noun

cocoa f (plural cocoas)

  1. cocoa
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