[Coco] Odd uses of the term "CoCo"

Diego Barizo diegoba at adinet.com.uy
Sat Jul 28 21:52:20 EDT 2007


Not only in Mexico, also in Uruguay, and I would bet that in many other 
S.American countries

Diego


Rogelio Perea wrote:
> Roger's Coco story sparked the curiosity bug in me... I have seen references
> to the term CoCo in the oddest places, let's go over a couple:
>
> CoCo - In central Mexico, not so prominently in the northern region, the
> word Coco is used to describe basically "the boogeyman". Small children
> would be warned that if they didn't eat their veggies, behave, do their
> homework or simply keep from being nice boys, the "coco" would come at them
> at night and abduct them.



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