Pern vs Perv - What's the difference?
pern | perv |
part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle
* 1813 February 4, "Specification of the Patent granted to William Broughton for a Method of making a peculiar Species of Canvas", in The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture ,
* 1851 , Official catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 ,
* 1894 , The New Technical Educator: An Encyclopaedia of Technical Education , volume 3,
(Webster 1913)
(slang) To stare at others in a perverted manner, especially whilst thinking sexual thoughts about them.
As nouns the difference between pern and perv
is that pern is part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle or pern can be a honey buzzard; pernis apivorus while perv is (slang) shortened term for pervert.As verbs the difference between pern and perv
is that pern is to take profit of; to make profitable while perv is (slang) to stare at others in a perverted manner, especially whilst thinking sexual thoughts about them.pern
English
Etymology 1
Presumably from a verb .Charles Moorman, ''The Works of the Gawain-Poet (1977), ISBN 978-1-60473-409-6,page 324. See also pirl.
Noun
(en noun)page 72:
page 38:
- Model of a patent machine for winding yarn from the hank, upon the shuttlecope or pern .
page 234:
- In one division the spindles carry the bobbins revolving inside a kind of cup or cone fitting down upon the pern , and the latter is shaped to fit accurately this conical surface.
Derived terms
* perne v.(?) (Yeats) * perning (Yeats)Etymology 2
19th century, after the taxonomical name Pernis (Cuvier 1816).Etymology 3
See pernancy.References
perv
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Alternative forms
* perveVerb
(en verb)- The soccer coach perved on one of the players as he undressed in the change room.