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Added 9 October 2026

cocoa

/ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/ noun

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about cocoa at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot.
Powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed.

Origin

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.

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