perv

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perv¹

  • /pɜːv/ UK
  • /pɝv/ US

Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)v

Where it comes from

Clipping of pervert (“a person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable”).

noun pervs · perve

  1. colloquial, derogatory, error unknown tag, often A sexual pervert. It is hoped that you will get at least a taste of kinky practices throughout the ages and come to the understanding that today’s kinky crowd is but the latest in a line of pervs stretching back to the dawn of mankind itself.
  2. Australia, UK, colloquial, error unknown tag An ogle; an act of leering or voyeurism. After the next ball had been bowled the blokes' heads would turn around unobtrusively to have a perv at a bird in a mini-skirt...

verb pervs · perving · perved · perve

  1. colloquial, error unknown tag, intransitive, as a phrasal verb To act in a sexually perverted manner. God, could you stop perving out over my sister? She's literally 14.
  2. colloquial, error unknown tag, intransitive, specifically, with on, as a phrasal verb To look at lasciviously or voyeuristically. The soccer coach perved on one of the players as he undressed in the change room.

PERV²

noun PERVs

  1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of porcine endogenous retrovirus

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noun pervert

中文色狼 sèláng
DeutschPerversling

verb stare at others in a perverted manner

中文色迷迷地看 sèmímí de kàn

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"perv." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/perv. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

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Chicago

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@misc{perv_2026,
  title = {perv},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/perv},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}