I always heard it used as "caneca (coneca)" & understood as someone infatuated
with "conas/cunts", femeninity beyond his ken & hence the derivative thereof. In the same pejorative application of "panaleiro, bonk-marpi, boncao/paederast, "fige- filho da-puta" sonofabitch, "colvant/colvont"/prostitute & so on But colloquialy it lacked venom, just like "marli xendi"... Alfred de Tavares > Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:02:33 +0530 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Goanet] Canecos > > To tell you frankly, Selma, I have never heard the word Canecos before. May > be it is a > short form of Canarins i.e. inhabitants of the coast of Canara. Canarim was > a word > implying contempt, used by the Portuguese to describe poor and illiterate > Catholic > Goans. The Portuguese got their geography wrong. From Goa to Bombay is > Konkan > coast, from Karwar to Mangalore it is Canara Coast and south of Mangalore is > > Malabar coast. We have to keep in view that the Portuguese ships reached > Goa > from south perhaps from the Angediva island next to Karwar. Hence Goa in > their eyes > was associated with Canara coast. > > Antonio _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. Check it out! http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_explore_012009
