Perisher
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 An annoying child, a brat. British, informal
"Get off my lawn, you little perisher!"
- 2 bounder wordnet
- 3 One who perishes. rare
"The Perishers Various peoples have perished in the past - for instance, Neanderthal Man and, later, the Tasmanians. Others are in the process of perishing - the aboriginees of Australia, the Bushmen, the Ituri Pygmies and the Red Indians."
- 4 An extreme act; a case of going all in. Australia, British, obsolete
"'So I've come down to Coltonslough, being, as I understand, the dullest hole upon the earth's crust, and I mean to go in a perisher.' A 'perisher' was his expression. 'And I mean to read like old boots; so you may let your servant light me a fire, ...'"
- 1 The Submarine Command Course. UK, slang
Example
More examples"Get off my lawn, you little perisher!"
Etymology
From perish + -er.
A pun on periscope and perish, in allusion to the supposedly low pass rate.
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