mocha
Plural: mochas
Noun
- A strong, pungent coffee or a chocolate-flavored coffee drink.
- soft suede glove leather from goatskin
- a flavoring made from coffee mixed with chocolate
- a superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia
- a dark brown color
- A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
- A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour.
- A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
- A strong Arabian coffee.
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration.
- An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
Adj
- Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
Examples
- He brewed a MOCHA to stay alert during the intense, late-night Words With Friends match.
- mocha fudge
Origin / Etymology
From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), for its role as a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.
The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or any mixture of coffee and chocolate flavors, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.
Synonyms
mocha coffee, caffè mocha, café mocha, mochaccino
Scrabble Score: 12
mocha: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmocha: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mocha: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary