malicapata

Fernando Q. Gouvea · 21 Jan 2003, 04:06 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: "Fernando Q. Gouvea" <fqgouvea at colby.edu>
Subject: (urth) malicapata
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:06:27 -0500
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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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