Quilpian

Does anyone have a definition or an explanation of this word?

I have searched the Dictionary…searched online…so far to no avail!

The contet is:

‘And here is the detial. West had Quilpian eating habits. He would take the hind end off a loaf of bread and top it with a brick of cheese. He would stroll around the house eating an onion like you’d eat an apple.’

In this context I am thinking Quilpian refers to some kind of animal.

quilpie.qld.gov.au/

I imagine it refers to the character of Daniel Quilp – a hideous and evil dwarf (from Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Quilp