chocho

See also: chōchō and chồ chồ

English

Etymology

Of Caribbean Spanish origin, ultimately from an indigenous South American word. Compare also Réunion French chouchou.

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

chocho (plural chochos)

1. (Caribbean) A chayote.

Anagrams

• chooch

Mecayapan Nahuatl

Etymology

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃot͡ʃo/

Noun

chocho

1. a kind of fruit (Astrocaryum mexicanum)

References

• Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz‎^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 40

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin fluxus. Doublet of frouxo and fluxo. Compare Italian frocio, Sicilian ciociu.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ʃu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ʃu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ʃo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ʃu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.ʃu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃo.t͡ʃu/

• Rhymes: -oʃu, (Northern Portugal) -ot͡ʃu
• Hyphenation: cho‧cho

Adjective

chocho (feminine chocha, masculine plural chochos, feminine plural chochas, comparable, comparative mais chocho, superlative o mais chocho or chochíssimo, diminutive chochinho)

1. (figuratively) dispirited, unenergetic, lethargic

Purepecha

Noun

chocho

1. Obsolete spelling of chóchu.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃot͡ʃo/ [ˈt͡ʃo.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -otʃo
• Syllabification: cho‧cho

Etymology 1

From Mozarabic xauxu, from Latin salsus (“salty”).

Noun

chocho m (plural chochos)

1. lupin beans, lupin fruit
2. cinnamon sweet

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Perhaps from etymology 1 or 3. See also chocha.

Noun

chocho m (plural chochos)

1. (vulgar, slang) cunt

Etymology 3

Perhaps related to clueco (and Italian chioccio) or Basque txotxo.

Adjective

chocho (feminine chocha, masculine plural chochos, feminine plural chochas)

1. (colloquial) senile, doddery
2. sentimental, soft
3. (Central America, colloquial) Nicaraguan

Derived terms

• chochera
• chochez

 

Noun

chocho m (plural chochos)

1. (colloquial) drug addict
2. (Central America, colloquial) Nicaraguan
3. (Mexico, colloquial) pill
4. (Mexico, slang) roid, anabolic steroid

Further reading

• “chocho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “chocho”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 387

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Noun

chocho

1. top (spinning toy)