Scot, Good try. Bu I don't think so. Cachaça (rum) is a specific brazilian term. Caxaxo must be some slang specific from Madeira. The nearest - homophonycally speaking - is cachaço. The back of the neckt of an ox. Cheers, Miguel On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Scot Austin <[email protected]> wrote: > Could it be Cachaça? > > Scot > > Mary Frost wrote: > > Good morning Miguel: > > I did not find the word in any of my multiple dictionaries so I went back > to > > my notes to locate the source of my information. I find I did not state > the > > source. As you are the native speaker, I will stand corrected. > > Mary > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miguel de Castro > > Henriques > > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 5:35 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [PT-MADEIRA] FYI:caxaxo? > > > > Hello Mary, > > > > You say "Caxaxo: it means the person in question was > > either lame or had one leg shorter than the other." > > > > That would be c o x o. Caxaxo is something else. > > > > regards, > > > > MIguel > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Mary Frost <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > >> Hello All: > >> > >> I have just a quick comment regarding this word found in a document. > >> > > Caxaxo > > > >> is not an occupation but a descriptive: it means the person in question > >> > > was > > > >> either lame or had one leg shorter than the other. > >> > >> Mary > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >