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Thread #118258   Message #2558634
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
05-Feb-09 - 11:32 PM
Thread Name: 'Sugar' and 'Azucar' in songs and folklore
Subject: RE: Origins: Sucu Sucu
Sucu sucu may be related th the American Spanish words "suco"- juice, sap, orange-colored; and "sucoso," juicy, succulent- or it may not. If so, azucar, sugar is the probable origin.

Another suggestion is that the word is related to "sucubo," a Spanish word for "a pretended demon, which, in intercourse with men, took the form of a woman."
Could this idea have been in the minds of the dancers in the Isle of Pines 150 or more year ago?

Definitions from- Velázquez, Spanish and English Dictionary.

It is impossible to attach with certainty meaning to an old word which is local in origin, unless a great deal is known about the local dialect spoken there.