Chocolatey describes something that tastes, smells, or looks like chocolate. A brownie might be wonderfully chocolatey, rich with cocoa flavor. Hot chocolate on a winter morning fills your kitchen with a chocolatey aroma. Chocolatey frosting is thick, dark, and intensely flavored with chocolate.

The word helps us describe the degree or quality of chocolate flavor. A chocolate chip cookie has chocolate in it, but a triple-chocolate fudge cake is deeply, intensely chocolatey. When a recipe promises a chocolatey dessert, it means the chocolate flavor will be strong and prominent throughout.

Sometimes people describe colors as chocolatey too. A chocolatey brown might describe someone's eyes, a horse's coat, or the rich color of freshly tilled soil. The word creates an image of deep, warm brown that makes you think of melted chocolate or cocoa powder.

Notice the spelling: chocolatey (or sometimes chocolaty) adds a “y” to chocolate to turn the noun into an adjective, just like watery comes from water or sugary comes from sugar.