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chocolate-covered

chocolate-covered

12 1.1
Covered with chocolate, like fruit or sweets
  • adjective
  • /ˈtʃɔkəˌlɛtˌkʌvərd/
translation icon : cubierto de chocolate
  • Would you care for a chocolate-covered strawberry?
  • chocolate-covered cherries
  • chocolate-covered strawberries
  • chocolate-covered pretzels

Oh, this is just like a chocolate covered chocolate cookie.

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Examples

  • Can I get two chocolate covered donuts and a medium coffee?

  • Rose also pours him a cup of tea and offers him chocolate-covered Girl Scout cookies.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • You can get them online, and for coffee, they even make chocolate-covered ones.

    Blog text (34)
  • Now I was going to take the space balls and I think these are dark chocolate covered almonds.

  • We should have some chocolate-covered strawberries.

  • Say, would you like a chocolate-covered pretzel?

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Harry finally settled on a box of chocolate-covered mints.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • What's a picnic without chocolate-covered strawberries?

  • Mami once brought Toshi a box of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts from Hawaii.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Can I get two chocolate-covered donuts and a medium coffee?

Antonyms

uncoated
  • Specialized
1 4.2

Without a thin layer of another material on it

Surface Forms

Morphology

chocolate-covered = chocolate + covered (transparent) = chocolate + cover + ed

The meaning is directly and predictably derived from 'chocolate' + 'covered' (coated with chocolate), which a B1 learner can infer from the parts.

Etymology

Chocolate-covered comes from two simple words: chocolate and cover. Chocolate came into English from Spanish and originally from an Aztec word meaning 'bitter water' for a cocoa drink, and cover means 'to put over', like in coat, so chocolate-covered means 'coated with chocolate'.