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Pig Island Austral. and N.Z. slang.
Also with lower-case initials and in pl.
[pig n.1]
New Zealand, so called because of the introduction of pigs (which then went wild) by Captain Cook. Also attrib. So Pig Islander, a native or inhabitant of New Zealand.
1917[see hoot n.3]. 1917E. Miller Camps, Tramps & Trenches (1939) 65 We Pig Islanders are not nearly so hot-blooded in our manner of speaking [as Australians]. 1927J. Devanny Old Savage 278 I'll back one pig island miner against three of the best that ever came out of England. 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Sept. 29/4 The Pig Islanders are due in Britain in 1936. 1938‘R. Hyde’ Nor Years Condemn 164 They call us Homies... A lot of people called the New Zealanders Pig Islanders, and the Australians the Aussies. 1945J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious 149 Back home in old Pig Island. 1946L. R. C. Macfarlane Amuri iii. 117 He returned to the Pig Islands. 1948in J. Reid Kiwi Laughs (1961) 161 The hell with all those soft-brained pig-islanders. They remind me of yahoos. 1952Landfall VI. 262 It [sc. his voice] reverts to a rough pig-island twang. 1960I. Cross Backward Sex v. 103, I felt it, and was made easier by it, being a pig islander. 1967F. Sargeson Hangover vii. 48 ‘Young man,’ he said, ‘it is my advice that you get off back to England... Pig Island is no place for the likes of you.’ 1970N.Z. Listener 21 Dec. 8/4 Another guy got black-mailed into taking a sheila half-way around Pig Island. |