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cockabully N.Z.|ˈkɒkəbʊlɪ|
[Corruption of Maori kokopu.]
A small blunt-nosed freshwater fish in New Zealand.
1896Australasian 29 Aug. 407/3 During my stay in New Zealand my little girl caught a fish rather larger than an English minnow. Her young companions called it a ‘cock-a-bully’... The Maori name for the fish is ‘kokopu’. 1934J. A. Lee Children of Poor (1949) 46 Minnows and cockabullies darted in and out of the cress. 1962B. J. Marples Freshwater Life N.Z. xviii. 138 The Bullies, or Cockabullies, are small, very common, blunt-nosed fish... They have large pectinated scales which extend on to the head and operculum in the species of Gobiomorphus, but are confined to the posterior part of the body in the genus Philypnodon. |