Could also mean a "mug"? Doing a web search revealed "caneco de cerveja" = "stein of beer".
See VRR's post at https://mailman.rice.edu/pipermail/sasialit/2007-August/012150.html VRR writes: In Goa, which was a Portuguese colony in those days, the "mestizos" were the equivalent of the Anglo-Indians. They were people of mixed Portuguese and Goan descent, and to them the rest of us were "canecos". In soccer games, where the local team would usually run rings around the Portuguese team, the mestizos would call out "Canelada! Canelada!", which translates to kick them in the shins. BTW, an interesting mathematical semi-palindrome was mentioned in one of the Brasilian posts relating to "pintura a canecos": 12 x 12 = 144 441 = 21 x 21 With reference to the Goa League booklet, in one Brasilian post, I read that "pintar a canecos" is not necessarily a football phrase, it is a common phrase in Brasil, having various meanings, depending on the context, I suppose. ========= "Pintar os canecos" não é nada futebolístico, Eugene, é bem comum. É o mesmo que pintar o sete e pode ser tudo isto: Praticar travessuras, diabruras, ou desatinos, desregramento; deitar e rolar: / Divertir-se à grande: / Fazer coisas extraordinárias / maltratar. Outras expressões com o mesmo significado: pintar e bordar, pintar a manta, pintar a saracura, pintar o diabo ========= Cheers, Gabriel. ----- Original Message ---- From: Carvalho <elisabeth_...@yahoo.com> To: estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Sent: Saturday, 11 July, 2009 5:12:21 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Canecos Hi Antonio, I too am finding it difficult to trace the exact colloquial translation of this word but my mother remembers the slur clearly and I have found a reference made to it, in a 1950 booklet produced by the Goa League. Peinture a canecos, means to play the fool, so I am assuming the word canecos by itself when used as a racial slur, meant stupid. Take care, selma ____________________________________________________________________________________ Access Yahoo!7 Mail on your mobile. Anytime. Anywhere. Show me how: http://au.mobile.yahoo.com/mail
