Words & TermsEveryday lifeShortening
choccy
Chocolate; also an attributive shortening as in choccy biccy.
In a sentence
I brought a choccy cake for afternoon tea.
Where it came from
Australian school and settlement resources explicitly teach choccy as Australian slang, and it fits the productive Australian -y/-ie shortening pattern.
- First recorded
- 2022
- Initial era
- 2000–today
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established