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prevert

prevert noun: a pervert.

Noun

prevert (plural preverts)

  1. (US, humorous) a pervert
    • […] so Joe come to me and he uz sore as a boil and said you goddam prevert, I don't want no twenny-two-year-old mechanic who still pulls his pood in the toilet, and farred me.1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love
    • I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. And I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts. Now move!1964, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, directed by Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, spoken by Colonel "Bat" Guano (Keenan Wynn)

Examples of prevert in a sentence

  • They kept saying pre-vert and how these preverts were poisoning America with the language they were using.1998, Jack Engelhard, The Days of the Bitter End, 3rd edition, British Columbia, Canada: DayRay Literary Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page...
  • You don't want that lady thinkin' you're a prevert." […] Floyd bit his lip.2018, Conn Hamlett, John Lee Johnson: Into the Pits of Hell – Lambert Goes Home, Bloomington, Indiana: Abbott Press, →ISBN:

Forms of prevert

pluralpreverts

Origin of prevert

Humorous alteration of pervert.

Questions about prevert

What does prevert mean?
Prevert means a pervert.
How do you use prevert in a sentence?
They kept saying pre-vert and how these preverts were poisoning America with the language they were using.
What part of speech is prevert?
Prevert is a noun.
What is the plural of prevert?
The plural of prevert is preverts.

Words near prevert in the dictionary

  1. preverified
  2. preverifies
  3. preverify
  4. preverifying
  5. prevernal
  6. prevert
  7. prevertebra
  8. prevertebrae
  9. prevertebral
  10. prevertebrate
  11. prevertical

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