cocoa

Etymology 1

From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. The form cocoa by confusion with coco, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Doublet of cacao.

noun

1. The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
2. An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
3. (uncountable) A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.
   Do you like cocoa?
   Half past nine - high time for supper; Cocoa, love? Of course, my dear. Helen thinks it quite delicious, John prefers it now to beer.... ¶For they've stumbled on the secret Of a love that never wanes, Rapt beneath the tumbled bedclothes, Cocoa coursing through their veins. 1979, Stanley J. Sharpless, A Food Lover's Companion, Harper & Row, Evan Jones (edit.)
4. (countable) A serving of this drink.
   I like to watch TV with a cocoa.
5. (countable, color) A light to medium brown colour.
   cocoa:

adj

1. Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

Etymology 2

By confusion with cocoa, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.

noun

1. (now nonstandard) Alternative spelling of coco.