pervadj.n.
/pəːv/, U.S. /pərv/, Australian English /pɜːv/ colloquial (originally Australian).
A. adj.
Of or relating to pornography.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > pornographic
pornographic1852
pornographical1889
pornograph1893
pornographico-devotional1939
perv1942
porno1952
porny1956
jack-off1967
triple-X1969
XXX1969
1942 ‘Havildar’ Hava look: Mag. H.M.A.T. ‘Havildar’ 14 Mar. 1 ‘Logical Love’..by that well-known perv-merchant, John..Hunt.
1945 L. Glassop We were Rats xxxi. 177 Bluey brought a perv book back from Cairo with him.
2001 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram (Nexis) 14 June (Life & Arts section) 3 You could buy filtering software..which keeps the ankle-biters from getting to perv sites.
B. n.
1. A sexual pervert; = pervert n. 2.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > sexual behaviour regarded as unconventional or unacceptable > person
pervert1856
freak1923
perv1948
secko1949
kinky1950
paraphiliac1958
paraphilic1962
prevert1962
kink1965
nonce1971
sickie1973
sicko1977
pervo1978
1948 S. L. Elliott Rusty Bugles i. i, in Khaki Bush & Bigotry (1968) 39 Gee, a bloke wouldn't know what to do after all this time. Mac: You little perv, you.
1968 D. Ireland Chantic Bird x. 101 He might have been a perve or a copper's nark.
1995 A. Warner Morvern Callar (1996) 12 He gave me an envelope and stared at me over his beard in that perv way.
a1999 S. Kane Cleansed in Compl. Plays (2001) xv. 140 Filthy little perv, clean it up.
2. An act of watching pruriently or lecherously; a lustful look. Also attributive.
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1963 J. Cantwell No Stranger to Flame 15 ‘Never even saw him. Might have been a spook.’ She did up the top button on the green blouse. ‘Even spooks like a bit of a perv.’
1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 189 Girl surfers were only tolerated because of their perv value.
2003 Front June 76/4 Just as you're getting a good perve at Kate's midriff, you hear his voice.
3. Pornography.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > pornography
pornography1842
coprology1856
pornographica1913
porn1962
perv1966
porno1967
kiddie porn1977
1966 S. Marcus Other Victorians v. 250 There is even some ordinary fornication—or, as they say in the London market nowadays, ‘straight perv’.
1987 N. Spinrad Little Heroes (1989) 32 A meatrack where crash and grabbers, street meat, and burned-out wireheads came to score perv and wire.
1997 Pioneer Press (SE. Minnesota) (Nexis) 20 Apr. 1 e Perv sells in the publishing world, too.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
pervv.
/pəːv/, U.S. /pərv/, Australian English /pɜːv/ colloquial (originally Australian).
intransitive. To act as or like a sexual pervert, esp. to look at someone lustfully or pruriently; (in weakened sense) to look at something or someone with excessive interest. Usually with at or on.
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1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 53 Perve, to, to act as a sexual pervert.
1973 A. Broinowski Take One Ambassador iii. 30 ‘Paper'd fold without me.’ ‘Yeah, I'll bet. Nothing for old Hastings to perve at.’
1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 85 Get sick of slumming it I guess. Like to perve on the ‘in crowd’ now and again.
2000 Ralph 7 July 23/1 Do lots of guys perve on Ella at gigs?
Derivatives
ˈperving n.
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1945 L. Glassop We were Rats xxxiii. 183 ‘Doing a bit of perving again?’ I asked, looking at the gallery of nudes he had gathered from all sorts of magazines.
1963 B. Hesling Dinkumization vi. 116 What they get you for, perving?
2000 N. Earls Perfect Skin 66 It was a crush, a proper crush, not just some lazy, drunken piece of New Year's Eve perving, you know.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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adj.n.1942v.1941