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Thread #21413   Message #4204738
Posted By: GUEST,Onkinesaipa
30-Jun-24 - 06:04 PM
Thread Name: Origins: John Kanaka
Subject: RE: Origins: John Kanaka
Look, it's pure French:

Jean qui n'a qu'un naquer- tous raillaient.

Jean who has only one "nacker"*, everybody was jeering.

Naquer seems to mean belly - so I suspect it was euphemistic in some sense.