cocoa

Definition

The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "Do you like cocoa?"
• "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."
• "I like to watch TV with a cocoa."

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