Noun: cocoa
| Singular | cocoa |
| Plural | cocoas |
Sample Sentences
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Do you like cocoa?
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Half past nine - high time for supper;
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Cocoa, love? Of course, my dear.
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Helen thinks it quite delicious,
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John prefers it now to beer....
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¶For they've stumbled on the secret
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Of a love that never wanes,
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Rapt beneath the tumbled bedclothes,
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Cocoa coursing through their veins. [1979, Stanley J. Sharpless, A Food Lover's Companion, Harper & Row, Evan Jones (edit.)]
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I like to watch TV with a cocoa.
Nouns inflected like cocoa
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Spanish Nouns '
cacao'.
Verbs referencing "cocoa"
Zulu Nouns
ukhokho.