perishing
/ˈpɛrɪʃɪŋ
/adjective British informal
1 dated Used for emphasis or to express annoyance: I could murder that perishing kid! [as submodifier]: you’ve been a perishing long time with that coffee!...
- Even so… I winced, heavily, at the bottom line price of the perishing things.
2 [predicative] Extremely cold: it’s perishing in the tent...
- Being so close to the Pacific means that the weather can be dicey: perishing cold, low cloud and sudden thaws on the lower slopes.
- And as well as it being perishing there was fierce wind and rain.
- Construction was difficult and carried on throughout the perishing winters as well.
Derivatives
perishingly
/ adverb ...- If it was perishingly cold in the stands.
- Marquand, J. P.
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