prevert
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Humorous alteration of pervert.
Noun[edit]
prevert (plural preverts)
- (humorous, US) a pervert
- 1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love:
- […] 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.
- 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):
- 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!
- 1998, Jack Engelhard, The Days of the Bitter End, 3rd edition, British Columbia, Canada: DayRay Literary Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 129:
- 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.
- 2018, Conn Hamlett, John Lee Johnson: Into the Pits of Hell – Lambert Goes Home, Bloomington, Indiana: Abbott Press, →ISBN:
- 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.