Pam, I am not a native english speaker, so I don´t know if I can explain it well, but bicho not always has a pejorative connotation. Here in Brazil in the early 1960's the word bicho was a slang referring to a friend, to a dude, a buddy, a guy. If you say "E aí, bicho?", it is almost the same as "What's up guy, dude ?", something like that.
Bicho means insects and animals in general. In the northeast area of Brazil the word 'bichinho", the diminutive form, is used as a gentle way to call someone you like. So, it's very difficult to say what was the connotation of the word bicho used as an 'alcunha' one or two centuries before. Manoel Cesar Furtado Em sábado, 23 de março de 2013 07h30min09s UTC-3, Pam Santos escreveu: > > Well I don't think they have bug eyes > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Pam Santos <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Not my couple. Jacintho Jose Medeiros (Bicho) was born in Vila Franca do >> Camp. his great grandparents were from Nossa Senhora da Luz, Ponte da Sol, >> Funchal, Madeira. Well either bug eye, smelling fish, or animal either way >> not a very appealing name lol >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:27 PM, joe m <[email protected] >> <javascript:>>wrote: >> >>> just happened to come across this site.*Rosa Emilia Jacintho was born >>> in Santa Cruz, on the island of Flores, in the the Azores in May of 1859. >>> She was the daughter of Antonio Jacintho Bicho and Maria deJesueAlmeda Bicho >>> * >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, March 21, 2013 8:33:09 PM UTC-4, Pam Santos wrote: >>> >>>> Okay I asked a fellow researcher awhile back and she said it meant >>>> smelly fish. Why would someone use that as a surnmae? Is it a cunha? Why >>>> would they use their real surname of Medeiros and sometimes use >>>> Bischo/Bisho? >>>> >>>> >>>> Pam >>>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] <javascript:>. Follow the confirmation >>> directions when they arrive. >>> For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail >>> (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the >>> right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my >>> membership." >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> > -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
