chocho

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

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chocho (plural chochos)

1. (Caribbean) A chayote.

• chooch

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• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃot͡ʃo/

chocho

1. a kind of fruit (Astrocaryum mexicanum)

• 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

From Latin fluxus.^[1][2] Doublet of frouxo and fluxo. Compare Italian frocio, Sicilian ciociu.

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

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

chocho

1. obsolete spelling of chóchu

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

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

chocho m (plural chochos)

1. lupin beans, lupin fruit
2. cinnamon sweet

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

chocho m (plural chochos)

1. (vulgar, slang) cunt

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

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

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

chocho m (plural chochos)

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

• “chocho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “chocho”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 387

chocho

1. top (spinning toy)