Noun: perve purv
Usage: informal
Usage: Austral, NZ, informal
Usage: informal
- A person whose behaviour deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behaviour
"The community was shocked to learn that a perve had been living in their neighbourhood";
- pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate, perv [informal]
Usage: Austral, NZ, informal
- Look at with amorous intentions
"The teenager perved the attractive lifeguard";
- ogle, perv [Austral, NZ, informal]
Derived forms: perved, perves
Type of: look, miscreant, reprobate
Encyclopedia: Perve