"prevert" meaning in English

See prevert in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: preverts [plural]
Etymology: Humorous alteration of pervert. Head templates: {{en-noun}} prevert (plural preverts)
  1. (humorous, US) a pervert Tags: US, humorous

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Humorous alteration of pervert.",
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    {
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    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love:",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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):",
          "text": "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!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Jack Engelhard, The Days of the Bitter End, 3rd edition, British Columbia, Canada: DayRay Literary Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 129:",
          "text": "Lenny Bruce? Didn't you room with that prevert? They kept saying pre-vert and how these preverts were poisoning America with the language they were using.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Conn Hamlett, John Lee Johnson: Into the Pits of Hell – Lambert Goes Home, Bloomington, Indiana: Abbott Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Turk exasperatedly shook his head. \"Close that lid. You don't want that lady thinkin' you're a prevert.\" […] Floyd bit his lip. He wanted to pronounce pervert for them, but he kept his eyes straight ahead.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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          "pervert#English"
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  "etymology_text": "Humorous alteration of pervert.",
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    }
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        {
          "ref": "1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love:",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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):",
          "text": "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!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Jack Engelhard, The Days of the Bitter End, 3rd edition, British Columbia, Canada: DayRay Literary Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 129:",
          "text": "Lenny Bruce? Didn't you room with that prevert? They kept saying pre-vert and how these preverts were poisoning America with the language they were using.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Conn Hamlett, John Lee Johnson: Into the Pits of Hell – Lambert Goes Home, Bloomington, Indiana: Abbott Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Turk exasperatedly shook his head. \"Close that lid. You don't want that lady thinkin' you're a prevert.\" […] Floyd bit his lip. He wanted to pronounce pervert for them, but he kept his eyes straight ahead.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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}

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