Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rich pungent Arabian coffee.
- n. Coffee of high quality.
- n. A coffee beverage flavored with milk, sugar, and cocoa.
- n. A flavoring made of coffee mixed with chocolate.
- n. A soft, thin, suede-finished glove leather usually made from sheepskin.
- n. A dark olive brown.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A choice quality of coffee, properly that produced in Yemen in Arabia, Mocha being its port. The mocha of general commerce, however, is obtained from other sources. The kernels are smaller than in other varieties.
- n. One of certain geometrid moths, notably of the genus Ephyra, having somewhat the color of burnt coffee: as, the dingy mocha, E. orbicularia; the birch mocha, E. pendularia.
- n. A cat of a black color intermixed with brown: so called from the Mocha stone.
- n. In glove-making:
- n. A soft leather made from Arabian goatskins, nominally from Mocha.
- n. Generally, a very soft sheepskin, tanned principally with oil.
Wiktionary
- n. countable A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof; a caffè mocha.
- n. A strong Arabian coffee
- n. A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour
- n. A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
- n. An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
- adj. Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A seaport town of Yemen, on the Red Sea, also spelled
Mukha . - n. A variety of coffee originally brought from Mocha.
- n. An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
- n. A flavoring made from an infusion of coffee or of a combination of coffee with chocolate or cocoa.
- n. A color of a deep chocolate brown.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a dark brown color
- n. a flavoring made from coffee mixed with chocolate
- n. soft suede glove leather from goatskin
- n. a superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia
Etymologies
- From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic المخا (al-Mukhā), due to its being a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule. (Wiktionary)
- After Mocha, a town of southwest Yemen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We wear them in mocha and black, dark purple and fuchsia.”
“Venti white chocolate mocha, that is the largest drink size at Starbucks.”
“Arabian: Often called mocha, this coffee is one of the most ancient, with a medium to full body, rich flavor and dry aftertaste, and chocolate tones.”
“I don't think the mocha is a good idea for pooches, because of the caffeine/xanthene issues in coffee and chocolate products.”
“November 7th, 2008 at 9: 21 am with a lot of hard work and constant support from both the metal and hip hop community, jose was able to invent the genre that would come to be known as mocha metal”
“Triple layer chocolate genoise cake soaked with brandy syrup, filled with a mocha swiss meringue buttercream with piped buttercream kisses and "mocha" written across in chocolate using a cornet.”
“Of course, the "mocha" means sweetish vanilla is part of the concoction.”
“This time I had a tall white chocolate mocha which is so good associated with a banana and caramel muffin and read Chocolate chocolate by Lisa Yockelson.”
“From now until Christmas Eve, pumpkin joins a menu that includes year-round favorites such as mocha, blueberry and sour cherries with kirsch.”
“Examining Attorney Jaclyn N. Kidwell provided dictionary definitions and webpages referring to the term "mocha" as a dark coffee made from Arabian beans.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mocha’.
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1001 ways to caffeinate
Coffee has been in the news recently; several long-term studies have concluded coffee almost certainly helps prevent type 2 diabetes, liver disease, basal cell carcinoma and possibly Parkinson’s. ...
flat white, black coffee, breve, ristretto, espresso, doppio, tripplo, depth charge, eiskaffee, caffè latte, café au lait, galão and 230 more...
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Loanwords,Arabic
Everbody knows where 'hazard' came from,More Arabic Words?
admiral, adobe, albatross, alchemy, alcohol, alcove, alembic, alfalfa, algebra, algorithm, alidade, alizarin and 34 more...
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Glove-making
Words from the art of making gloves.
trank, fourchette, mocha, forget, forgette, welt, doeskin, cheveril, kid, sallow, mousquetaire, berlin and 1 more...
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Tip-Top Toponymic
Place names that have entered general speech. Toponyms that interest me in other ways are on Place Names Of Distinction
hamburger, wiener, finlandisation, vernissage, hackney, venetians, bohemian, anti-macassar, berliner, cravat, calico, serendipity and 113 more...
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Colors
Words for colors, including things so associated with a color that they can be used in reference to a color.
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, purple, navy, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse and 218 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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words i love
fuss, rhythm, obfuscate, sumptuous, decadence, ethereal, peach, stingy, muscle, wrapper, corpus, dastardly deed and 90 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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katiad's Words
exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
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Favorite Five-Letter Words
Just what it sounds like. My favorites. Five letters.
ennui, barfy, samba, schwa, beefy, chunk, queef, spasm, skulk, bowel, elbow, fruit and 235 more...
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tragedy of the commons
insomnia, arabesque, carousal, lucifer, riot, submerge, initiate, indigo, existence, magenta, opus, sleeplessness and 145 more...
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How Do You Take Your Coffee?
The things that can be done to a cuppa joe.
Kahlúa, Irish coffee, syrup shot, vanilla, hazelnut, Sanka, harmless, decaf, half-caf, quad, triple, double and 97 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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christy927's list
...all my favorite words...
chrysalis, mahogany, indigo, elysian, rubenesque, cataclysmic, scythe, archaic, gaelic, trollop, sycamore, canopy and 279 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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