Subject: (urth) malicapata

From: Fernando Q. Gouvea <fqgouvea at colby.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 04:06:27 +0000

Hmmm... a "capon" is a castrated male chicken, from a Latin root that means
"to cut", I think. So "badly cut"?

Fernando

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