Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. Aus.) sexually perverted.

1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
1974		Searchlight (Sydney) 84 5: I think that a lot of men are too afraid to ask their wives to take part in little pervy acts, so they have to pay for it.
1997		(con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 99: About six or seven years ago the stuff started getting pervy.
1999		People (Sydney) 5 July 65/2: A pervy Pommy postie copped a year in the clink for stealing a whopping eight mailbags full of sex toys!
2006		D. Mitchell Black Swan Green 237: You can’t take sweets from pervy men in parks.
2010		L. Redhead Thrill City [ebook] The angle [of the image] suggested the guys had installed a small camera in the light fitting, Pervy fuckers.
2012		Guardian On Line 11 Oct. 🌐 They thought he was a funny old man, a pervy old man.
2013		J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 117: The flies and snakes were on board [...] trying not to look pervy, foaming over all that plaid-skirt jailbait.
2017		G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘All I know is you’re sitting in your car watching thirteen-year-old girls play netball.’ [...] ‘Fair enough. Does look a bit pervy’.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 104: She embraced the pervy Weimar Republic aesthetic.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 301: Then it was just me and her plus a dozen pervy voyeurs who had come to watch a Legend in action.

2. pornographic, smutty.

1944		L. Glassop We Were the Rats 178: It gets pervy again here.
1952		T.A.G. Hungerford Ridge and the River (1966) 48: Not pervy stuff like some of the blokes do – Rusty showed me a letter he writ to his crow and I thought what a nice sort of a bag she must be to put up with it.
1963		(con. 1944) L. Glassop Rats in New Guinea 178: Do ya reckon Eunice had the best brace an’ bits, the most pervy tit for tats?
1970		(con. 1941) R. Beilby No Medals for Aphrodite 157: ‘I’d say she’s got too much sticking out.’ ‘All right, you pervy bastard!’.
2000		Guardian Weekend 8 Apr. 77: And saying like really weird pervy things.
2006		G. Malkani Londonstani (2007) 158: I don’t want to see [...] pervy, immature, or corny.
2011		Times Mag. 30 Apr. 14/1: Let’s just not call them [i.e. underwear] ‘panties,’ eh? it’s the perviest word ever.

3. sexually active.

1992

R.G. Barrett Davo’s Little Something 40: The blonde [...] had pervy looking eyes that seemed to dart everywhere.