perv n.
1. (orig. Aus.) one who is categorized as a sexual pervert, esp. a child-molester; also in joc. + attrib. use.
Rusty Bugles I i: You little perv, you. [Ibid.] II iii: Who’s a dirty perv, you dirty perv. | ||
Poor Man’s Orange 38: ‘Just look at that dirty ole secko, will you?’ he said disgustedly, and scooping up a stone he ran after it, yelling, ‘Merv, Merv, the rotten old perv.’. | ||
Big Smoke 151: Some perv had his hand up your rompers. | ||
Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 63: Hanging’s too good for perves like him. | ||
Big Red 79: I shouldn’t wonder if he isn’t a bit of an old perv! | ||
Puberty Blues 51: Oh the old perv. Bishop can stick it. | ||
You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 41: There hasn’t been a decent rape, bank robbery or murder for weeks. Even the kiddy pervs have gone quiet. | ||
Fixx 39: My nanny’s a perv. She makes me give her climaxes. | ||
White Shoes 247: Going through a woman’s underwear behind her back. I always knew I was some sort of perv. | ||
Stormy Weather 294: Tony, you dirty old perv. | ||
Filth 130: This cunt must be a fuckin perve of the highest order. | ||
in On the Run (2007) 60: They were giving me the glad eye and ignoring Uncle Pervy who had been sent along as chaperone. | ||
Destination: Morgue! (2004) 353: He’s sort of a perv, but he’s my dad, and I love him. | ‘Jungletown Jihad’ in||
Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] The fat perv in the round glasses and beret. | ||
Beyond Black 133: He started pulling my skirt up [...] I was crying and swearing and shouting ‘Piss off, you perv’. | ||
me-stepmums-too-fuckin-hot-mate at www.fakku.net 🌐 Typical Kyo-Kun, such a perv. | ||
Crongton Knights 29: She’s not even supposed to have a boyfriend, let alone an eighteen-year-old perv. | ||
Lives Laid Away [ebook] ‘Just wanted to see if you were some kind of perv’. | ||
Silver [ebook] I was naked when the old man arrived. [...] He was practically salivating, the old perve. | ||
Widespread Panic 17: I pounded a perv who whipped out his wang. | ||
Enchanters 7: His perv sheet dates back to 1938/ He’s a stat rape-o and psycho snout diver. | (con. 1962)||
Empty Wigs (t/s) 125: ‘Down boy. You really are such a fruity old perv’. |
2. a male homosexual.
Dinkumization or Depommification 116: Two cops [...] booked nearly two hundred ‘pervs’ a year from this one dunny. | ||
(con. 1940s–60s) Snatches and Lays 51: I’ll pimp for prosses, pimps and pervs. | ‘The New People’s Flag’ in||
Decadence in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 13: You digust me / you perve / dirty little homo. | ||
(con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 433: Married johns and pervs and queers are prone to it. |
3. pornography, usu. featuring what is considered ‘bizarre’ sex.
‘Havildar’ Hava look: Mag. H.M.A.T. ‘Havildar’ 14 Mar. 1: ‘Logical Love’ [...] by that well-known perv-merchant, John [...] Hunt [OED]. | ||
(con. 1960s) London Blues 69: perv is girls dressed in rubber and tied up, or a white girl being screwed by a black guy. | ||
Soho Typescripts: 16: When he inquired of a Soho bookseller whether he had any books and pictures other than flagellation he was told: ‘You can’t sell these rotten buggers any of that normal perv!’. |
4. (Aus.) a general term of abuse.
(con. 1940s) Andy 148: You always were a bloody perv. |
5. (also pervdog) a voyeur; also non-sexual use.
Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 44: I feel a bit of a perve standing here like this but I can’t help getting an earful of them two lovebirds. | ||
Breaking Out 158: You’re just a couple of dirty pervs! | ||
Foetal Attraction (1994) 227: You’re just a glorified perv. All you do is film animals sleeping with or eating each other. | ||
Indep. Rev. 23 Feb. 9: I just mumbled, ‘Yeah, I’m an old perve’, [...] and made a hasty exit. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 155: perv/perve/pervy Lustful staring or the person who does so. | ||
Happy Mutant Baby Pills 61: I hovered, like some lind of zoner perv. | ||
(con. 1962) Enchanters 36: Pervdog, voyeur, peeper. |
6. the male act of watching passing women; similarly looking at pornographic or sexy pictures.
Real Thing 45: A bit of a perv on the office girls in town for a while. | ||
Dinkum Aussie Dict. 40: Perve: In its most general sense the male habit of eyeing up a woman. | ||
(con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 68: ‘Are you having a good enough perve you dirty old bastard’. | ||
Leaving Bondi (2013) [ebook] Ray also had a good-looking French girlfriend who was always good for a perv. | ||
see sense 5. | ||
Peepshow [ebook] Everyone else in the place looked over, copping a free perve. | ||
Chopper 4 144: Every sex maniac and rapist in jail would call in for a daily perve. | ||
Viva La Madness 169: I sit down and click on the first photo [...] Sonny thinks I’m just having a perv. |
7. any form of ‘deviant’ sex act.
Night People 26: The john had paid Cutie a hundred dollars for letting him piss on her hair. Ordinarily she didn’t do perv. |
8. in non-sexual use, an obsessive.
Up the Cross 155: Any cue game perv knows that [...] you [...] select your own personal cue. | (con. 1959)||
You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 96: Seeing as how you’re an opal perv, Price, I thought I might have a word with you about them. | ||
Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] If you were a people perv it [i.e. a nightclub] was paradise; providing you kept your mouth shut and didn’t make too much eye contact. |
In phrases
to stare at in a sexual manner.
Lockie Leonard: Scumbuster (1995) 80: I’m leaning over having a perv at a Tracks mag. | ||
Goddamn Bus of Happiness 186: I’m pretty goddamn sure he didn’t mean for me to burn down some guy’s house, even if the guy had been having a perve at his daughter. |