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perisher
noun 3name 1
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1ADJ.
little
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noun
1
An annoying child, a brat.
Get off my lawn, you little perisher!
2
One who perishes.
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.
They died to decree that government of and by and for the PEOPLE (identity undefined) should never perish. The poor perishers, perishing still.
3
An extreme act; a case of going all in.
'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, ...'
Then he most times went in an awful perisher — took a month to it, and was never sober day or night the whole time. When he'd spent all his money he'd crawl out of the township and get away into the country more dead than alive, ...
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The Submarine Command Course.
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Get off my lawn, you little perisher!
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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,
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They died to decree that government of and by and for the PEOPLE (identity undefined) should never perish. The poor perishers, perishing still.
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