Pert vs Perv - What's the difference?
pert | perv |
Attractive (of a person); well-formed, shapely (of a part of the body).
Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.
* 1594 , William Shakespeare, , Act 1, Scene 1:
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 333:
(obsolete) Open; evident; unhidden; apert.
(slang) To stare at others in a perverted manner, especially whilst thinking sexual thoughts about them.
As verbs the difference between pert and perv
is that pert is to behave with pertness while perv is to stare at others in a perverted manner, especially whilst thinking sexual thoughts about them.As an adjective pert
is attractive (of a person); well-formed, shapely (of a part of the body).As an acronym PERT
is Program Evaluation and Review Technique, a method for diagramming and analyzing the flow of dependent tasks and other events in a project.As a noun perv is
shortened term for pervert.pert
English
Adjective
(er)- "Go Philostrate, Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments, Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth"
- "You'll not be so pert when the Cornish seize you. They spit children like you and roast them on bonfires."
- (Piers Plowman)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* pertly * pertnessAnagrams
* ----perv
English
Alternative forms
* perveVerb
(en verb)- The soccer coach perved on one of the players as he undressed in the change room.