And here I was thinking that boncao was the Konkani word for Double Bass, plucked rather than played with a bow.
Roland. On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Alfred de Tavares<alfredtava...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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