Green’s Dictionary of Slang

manicou-man n.

[? Carib.E. manicou, a ‘nocturnal, foul-smelling marsupial rodent the size of a cat’ (Allsopp, Dict. Caribbean English Usage, 1996); the young of this creature hang onto their mother for transportation]

(W.I.) an effeminate man.

[WI]Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage.