drinking chocolate
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- noun
- /ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ ˈtʃɔkəlet/
- UK
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chocolate a la taza
- On a chilly evening, I enjoyed a warm cup of drinking chocolate topped with whipped cream.
Examples
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So I use your classic Cadbury's drinking chocolate and it's this, which is just the powder.
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It reminded me of "drinking chocolate."
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She prepared a rich drinking chocolate using dark cocoa, milk, and a sprinkle of sugar.
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After dinner, we sat by the fire, sipping our drinking chocolate and chatting happily.
Synonyms
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A hot drink made by mixing cocoa powder, milk, and sugar
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A sweet warm drink made from cocoa and milk
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Hot drink made from powder of roasted cacao beans with milk and sugar
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound labels chocolate intended for drinking: the modifier 'drinking' (the act of swallowing liquids) combined with 'chocolate' yields a chocolate beverage, so the meaning is directly inferable from the parts. This compositional pattern (a food/drink noun modified by 'drinking' or equivalent) is common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Drinking chocolate comes from the simple idea of drinking chocolate instead of eating it; people long ago mixed ground cocoa with milk or water to make a warm, rich drink. So drinking chocolate means 'a sweet, hot beverage' made from chocolate rather than a solid bar.