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▪ I. cocoa, n.|ˈkəʊkəʊ|
[A corruption of cacao, in 16–18th c. also written cacoa, and sometimes in 18th c. cocao. Cacao was the Spanish adaptation of cacauatl (or rather of its combining form cacaua-), the Mexican name of the cacao-seed.
The word was orig. of 3 syllables, ca-ˈca-o, co-ˈco-a, but the error of spelling coco as cocoa has led to the further corruption of pronouncing cocoa as coco.]
†1. The seed of Theobroma Cacao, a tropical American tree: more correctly called cacao. Obs. Formerly commonly called cocoa-nut, and now often cocoa-bean.
1707W. Funnell Voy. v. 89 The Nut or Kernel..ripens in a great Husk, wherein are sometimes 30, nay 40 cocoas. These Cocoas are made use of to make Chocolate. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 115 A French Ship from the Havannah, with sugar, cochineal, and cocoa.
2. The Cacao-tree. (rare and improper.)
1876Harley Mat. Med. 708 Cocoa, this small tree furnishes a product which is extremely useful both as food and medicine. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. iii. 187 Cocoa..A tree twenty feet in height.
3. a. The powder produced by crushing and grinding the seeds, often with other substances added; also, a common beverage made from this powder, or from the prepared seeds. (The ordinary sense.)
1788Burns Let. Wks. 35, I executed your commission in Glasgow, and I hope the cocoa came safe. 1798Jane Austen Northang. Abb. (1833) II. x. 168 The General, between his cocoa and his newspaper, had no leisure for noticing her. 1855J. F. W. Johnston Chem. Com. Life I. 219 The cocoa of Trinidad is the variety chiefly consumed in this country. Mod. Many now drink cocoa in preference to coffee.
b. A shade of brown resembling the colour of the powder. Also attrib.
1894Westm. Gaz. 23 July 5/3 The destroyers Havock and Hornet..are looking as smart as the peculiarly ugly cocoa colour they are painted will allow. 1923Daily Mail 24. Apr. 1 (Advt.), Colours: Nigger, Cocoa, Canary, Brick, etc. 1940F. D. Davison in B. James Austral. Short Stories (1963) 64 A broad-shouldered figure in a cocoa-brown suit. 1942R. Chandler High Window (1943) ii. 23 The cocoa straw hat.
4. attrib. and Comb. cocoa bean, a recent name of the cacao seed; cocoa-butter, cocoa-fat = cacao-butter; cocoa-nib, the cotyledon of the cacao seed, being one of the states in which it is sold; † cocoa-nut, the name formerly given to the cacao seed; now disused, to avoid confusion with the current cocoa-nut = coco-nut; cocoa-paste, the pasty mass formed by grinding the seed, in which state it was formerly imported; cocoa powder, a light brown sort of gunpowder; Cocoa Press: a familiar term for certain (now defunct) Liberal newspapers supposed to have been controlled by (Quaker) manufacturers of cocoa; so Cocoa Quaker; cocoa-room, -tavern, places for the sale of the beverage; cocoa-tea (see quot.); cocoa-tree, the cacao tree. Also cocoa-essence, cocoa extract, etc., cocoa-coloured adj.
1855J. F. W. Johnston Chem. Com. Life I. 223 The *cocoa-bean of commerce is brittle. 1871S. Mateer Travancore 96 The breadfruit, cocoa bean..etc., deserve more extended cultivation.
1887N. F. Anstey in Macm. Mag. Feb. 257/2 The *cocoa-coloured Row, and the flash of distant carriage-wheels in the sun-light.
1866Treas. Bot. 1143 The cotyledons, commonly called *cocoa-nibs’, [are] crushed and ground between heated rollers.
1672W. Hughes (title), The American Physitian..with Discourse on the *Cocoa-nut-tree and making of Chocolate. 1724Abstr. Act 10 Geo. I, in Lond. Gaz. No. 6270/6 Every..Seller of..Coffee, Tea, or Cocoa-Nuts. 1751Sir J. Hill Mat. Med. (J.), Within the cavity of this fruit are lodged the cocoa nuts, usually about thirty in number.
1716Lond. Gaz. No. 5416/3 *Coco-Paste, Chocolate. 1750Beawes Lex Mercat. (1752) 55 Cocoa-nuts, Chocolate and Cocoa-paste.
1884Pall Mall G. 13 Nov. 3/2 At present we are buying *cocoa powder from Germany. 1885Globe 31 Jan. 2/3 The War Department has adopted the new brown gunpowder, known as the ‘cocoa’ powder..manufactured at..Waltham Abbey. It creates a very thin smoke, and does not obscure the targets.
1910Referee 16 Jan., ‘Modern Slavery’, a pamphlet issued by the World,..speaks its mind frankly on..the Pro-Boer campaign conducted largely by the Free Trade *Cocoa Press. 1915National Rev. Jan. 689 The glory of the Cocoa Press has departed. 1944M. Ward G. K. Chesterton xvii. 255 The Daily News and other papers owned by Mr Cadbury (of Cadbury's Cocoa) were often referred to as ‘the Cocoa Press’.
1915National Rev. Jan. 712 According to the Imperial Chancellor..Wilhelm II was a *Cocoa Quaker.
1877A. Balfour in Life xiii. (1889) 283 Successful meetings of..Temperance Society, of *Cocoa-rooms opening, etc.
1836Disraeli Corr. w. Sister (1886) 47 Sophy is only ill from eating *cocoa sweetmeat!
1855J. F. W. Johnston Chem. Com. Life I. 225 Another variety of the cocoa beverages, which may be called *cocoa-tea, is prepared by boiling the husks of the bean in water.
1707W. Funnell Voy. (1729) 59 The *Cocoa-tree is small, and the nut or kernel bigger than an almond.
▪ II. cocoa2
another form of cocco.
▪ III. cocoa, v.|ˈkəʊkəʊ|
Also coco.
In phr. I should cocoa (Rhyming slang), I should say so. Freq. used ironically.
1936J. Curtis Gilt Kid ii. 23 She don't do so bad, I should cocoa. 1964Listener 31 Dec. 1053/2 ‘I should cocoa!’ I retorts... ‘They won't get me in the Kate—not in a million years they won't.’ 1965J. Porter Dover Three xi. 133 ‘She says you paid her a pound a week for the best part of nine months,’ Dover went on. Mrs. Gomersall laughed scornfully. ‘I should co-co!’ she chortled. 1967O. Norton Now Lying Dead ii. 22 What me?.. I should coco. Sheila'd think I was off my head. |