Fungee, Chibble, Gooks, Spigs (1920)---(look at "chivo")

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

"chivo"--- goat, graft.  What's the connection?

Gerald Cohen

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        ROAMING THROUGH THE WEST INDIES
        by Harry A. Franck
        New York: Blue Ribbon Books
        1920
        ...
        Pg. 103:  Graft, known in Cuba as "_chivo_," is hereditary in the chief of
        the West Indies.


        Pg. 203:  First of all there were the "chivo" cigars,--_chivo_ meaning not
        merely goat but something corresponding to our word "graft" in the Spanish West
        Indies--which never made any pretense of bearing a stamp.
        ...