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perve

perve is the alternative form of perv.

Meaning of perv

Noun

perv (plural pervs)

  1. (slang) A 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. (Australia, UK, slang) 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...1974 10, The Bulletin

See all 4 meanings of perv

Forms of perve

Noun
pluralperves
Verb
third-person singular presentperves
present participleperving
past participleperved
pastperved

Questions about perve

What is perve the alternative form of?
Perve is the alternative form of perv.

Words near perve in the dictionary

  1. pervasive game
  2. pervasive games
  3. pervasive refusal syndrome
  4. pervasively
  5. pervasiveness
  6. perve
  7. perveance
  8. perveances
  9. perved
  10. pervention
  11. perventions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perve (page history and authors); perv (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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