cocoa

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/
• (US) enPR: kōʹkō, IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.koʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
• Homophone: coco

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?

   • 1979, Stanley J. Sharpless, A Food Lover's Companion, Harper & Row, Evan Jones (edit.)

     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.

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:  

• (hot drink): chocolate, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate

• cocoa bean
• cocoa butter
• cocoa-payol
• cocoa powder

• cacao

cocoa (not comparable)

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

• Appendix:Colors

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

cocoa

1. (dated) Alternative spelling of coco.

• cocohua

• IPA^(key): /koko(w)a/

cocoa

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

• cocoya

• 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

cocoa f (plural cocoas)

1. cocoa