perv

plural pervs · alternative perve

1. colloquialderogatoryoftenA 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.

   2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 51

2. AustraliaUKcolloquialAn ogle; an act of leering or voyeurism.

   She had a bit of a perv over my body when I was working out…

   2014 December 16, “Jake Quickenden: ‘Edwina Curry had a perv over my body’”, in Heat

   3 more examples

   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...

   1974 10, The Bulletin

   It transpires that whilst Trev and Boz (me) slowed down to 'take a perv' at the blonde, she too used to keep an eye out for me.

   1994, Paul Collins, The Government in Exile and Other Stories

   Was she bursting in for a quick perv? Was she genuinely concerned that I might have soiled the bathwater by not first washing? Was she worried I might have drowned in the bath?

   2019 August 2, Max Value, Sayonara Japan, Lulu.com, →ISBN

present singular third person pervs · participle present perving · participle past perved · past perved · alternative perve

1. colloquialintransitiveTo act in a sexually perverted manner.

   God, could you stop perving out over my sister? She's literally 14.

   1. colloquialintransitivespecificallywith onTo look at lasciviously or voyeuristically.

      The soccer coach perved on one of the players as he undressed in the change room.

plural PERVs

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of porcine endogenous retrovirus.