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peacherino slang (chiefly U.S.).|piːtʃəˈriːnəʊ| [Fanciful f. peach n.1 1 b.] = peach n.1 1 b. Also peacheˈrine, peacheˈroo.
1900Dialect Notes II. 48 Peacherine,..synonym for peach. [1900Polk's Kansas State Gazetteer IX. 695 (Advt.), As a hero you'll forever Take the ‘peacherino’ yam.] 1905A. M. Binstead Mop Fair iii. 47 Archie, who had undertaken not only to give the Dragoon a merry evening, but to ring in miracles on him in the peacherino line,..repented the loss of all his addresses. 1908G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock iv. 71, I went up in the air like an old wife happening by the office and discovering her husband dictating to a new blonde peacherino instead of old reliable. 1910S. E. White Rules of Game iii. xv. 273 Plant has a drag with Chairman Gay; don't know what it is, but it's a good one, a peacherino. 1928Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 98/2 Though Captain Reginald saw little of her except at meals, he realised that here indeed was a ‘peacherino’. 1966M. Woodhouse Tree Frog xxiii. 171 ‘She [sc. an aeroplane] 's a peach,’ he said. ‘A real peacheroo.’ 1967C. Rougvie When Johnny Died iv. 88 When I was his age, they were hauling them out from under me... And all young peacherinos, too. 1970R. Goldman Sob Story in This Side of Parodies (National Lampoon, U.S.) (1974) 78 ‘What do you think?’ I asked. ‘Isn't she a peacheroo?’ |