or Cooker
NewZealand colonists' slang. First applied to the wild pigs ofNew Zealand, supposed to be descended from those firstintroduced by Captain Cook; afterwards used as term of reproachfor any pig which, like the wild variety, obstinately refusedto fatten. See Introduction.
1879. W. Quin, `New Zealand Country Journal,' vol. iii. p. 55:
«Many a rare old tusker finds a home in the mountain gorges.The immense tusks at Brooksdale attest the size of the wildboars or Captain Cooks, as the patriarchs are generally named.»
1894. E. Wakefield, `New Zealand after Fifty Years,' p. 85:
«The leanness and roughness of the wild pig gives it quite adifferent appearance from the domesticated variety; and hence agaunt, ill-shaped, or sorry-looking pig is everywhere called inderision a `Captain Cook.'»