Captain Cook n.
1. (Aus./N.Z., also Captain cooker, cooker) a pig, esp. one which is run-down or ill-kempt.
N.Z. Country Journal III 55: Many a rare old tusker, finds a home in the mountain gorges. The immense tusks at Brooksdale attest the size of the wild boars or Captain Cooks, as the patriarchs are generally named. | ||
Timaru Herald (Canterbury) 10 Sept. 4/1: He was attacked by a huge boar [...] Mr Young made to terrify him, the ungainly Captain Cooker approached. | ||
N.Z. after Fifty Years 85: A gaunt ill-shaped, or sorry-looking pig is everywhere called in derision a ‘Captain Cook.’. | ||
Otautau Standard (Otago) 19 Oct. 4/4: A tusker of immense size - a regular Captain Cooker. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 18 July 16/3: I had business in the Bay of Islands (M.L.) which compelled me to be a guest of Henare’s for some weeks. [...] Joints with the vegetables were, for a time, obtained by an ardent crusade against the long-nosed ‘Captain Cooks,’ who rooted for a scanty living in the kauri forests. | ||
Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 June 3/3: Game abounds in parts; geese, sandgrouse, partridge, duck and ‘Captain Cookers’ have figured in our bill of fare. | ||
(ref. to 1890-1910) Early Canterbury Runs (1951) 367: Captain Cooker – Slang for wild pig. | ||
Nor the Years Condemn 128: They [...] heard wild pig crashing in the undergrowth. ‘Old Captain Cooker, eh?’ said Starkie. | ||
(con. 1875) Te Waimate (1954) 256: ‘Captain Cookers’ are high off the ground and very slab sided, designed rather for speed than for bacon. | ||
N.Z. 117: New Zealanders have coined or adapted many expressions to meet local requirements, as illustrated by the following: [...] Captain Cooker: wild pig. | ||
Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 25/1: Captain Cooker wild pig the good captain introduced; also a cooker, described by Edward Jerningham Wakefield as ‘a gaunt, ill-shaped or sorry looking pig’. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |
2. a book; a betting book.
Mirror of Life 27 July 14/2: The stranger quickly read his broad / With a smile on his Dutch plaice, Then turned to ramper Jones, / who made / A Captain Cook that day . | ||
Dict. of Rhy. Sl. 47/1: Captain Cook(s) (1) England: book(s) [...] late 19C. origin, coinciding with the popularization of the Public Lending Libraries, and is now used largely by racing men to describe the betting book. | ||
Up the Frog. | ||
Dict. of Cockney Rhy. Sl. | ||
Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl. | ||
Betoota-isms 244: ‘There’s a Commodore for sale down on the highway, might go down and have another Captain Cook’. |
3. (Aus./N.Z./US, also captain) a look.
Truth (Brisbane) 28 Sept. 2/2: [B]y the Captain Cook on his Flying and Trial, he didn't care whether she was Aussie or English. | ||
(con. WWI) Flesh in Armour 179: ‘Take a captain cook at love’s young dream’. | ||
Argus (Melbourne) 18 Apr. 3s/6: ‘Captain Cook’ is a look. | ||
Courtship of Uncle Henry 70: I took a Captain Cook at him then and seen he had on a white coat like a dentist. | ||
Jimmy Brockett 21: I sat down and had a Captain Cook at the paper. | ||
Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 73: I reckon she would have dropped her harolds and gone off like a two-bob watch at the first pom to have a captain cook at her bloody norks. | ||
I’m a Jack, All Right 8: I’ve just taken a Captain Cook at the harbour watchbill. | ||
He who Shoots Last 5: Take a captain over dere. | ||
Gone Troppo (1969) 80: Let’s have a Captain Cook. | ||
Steptoe and Son [TV script] Let’s have a Captain Cook at you. | ‘Cuckoo in the Nest’||
Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 22: Captain Cook Look. | ||
Lingo 89: Names of prominent, and even not so prominent, people, and even department stores, have always proved fertile sources of Australian rhyming slang, such as bass and flinders winders (windows); captain cook look, as in take a captain cook at that, also used in Cockney rhyming slang. | ||
www.asstr.org 🌐 I get down close to Dionne’s fainting fits and give them a captain cook: the tips are sticking out like cigar butts. | ‘Dead Beard’ at||
Theft 69: All the vice squad [...] come to have a Captain Cook. | ||
Adventures of the Honey Badger [ebook] I’ve had a bit of a Captain Cook around the globe and I’ve seen some flash joints. |
4. (N.Z. prison) a hook, i.e. a punch.
Big Huey 246: captain cook (n) Punch or hook. |