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ˈperisher
[f. perish v. + -er1.]
a. That which perishes or destroys; esp. an extreme (of any course of action); a ‘plunger’; also applied to persons as a term of contempt, and more generally, with an overtone of pity. Also (little) perishers pl., children. slang.
1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xli, He..went in an awful perisher—took a month to it, and was never sober day or night the whole time. 1896Idler Mar. 282/1 Those perishers in the gallery didn't know anything about Shakespeare. 1908A. M. N. Lyons Arthur's ii. i. 106 Poor ole perisher's 'fraid to come in, 'e is. 1924R. Keable Recompence i. 9 But we can't hear of a soul, or, if we do, the perisher funks this place. 1935Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins xv. 181 If you ask me, they don't learn the little perishers nothing. 1942― Money in Bank (1946) xi. 85 Most modern young men are squirts and perishers. 1957R. Park One-a-Pecker (1958) xi. 199 He had no name. In the thaw they buried him in the pass, and his epitaph was Some Poor Bloody Perisher. 1864. 1979Guardian 30 Apr. 13/2, I taught the whole school..about Palm Sunday... Not one of the little perishers knew.
b. Austral. = perish n. 2.
1903R. Bedford True Eyes 292 Of course that country we went to on the Peak was a shicer. Just's well you didn't come—we near did a perisher there. 1903‘T. Collins’ Such is Life i. 7 You will understand that the bullock drivers' choice of accommodation lay between the selection, the ram-paddock, and a perisher on the plain... A perisher on the plain is seldom hard to find in a bad season, when the country is stocked for good seasons. 1936A. Russell Gone Nomad vi. 44 Where one flood will leave behind a well-filled waterhole..the next, probably, will fill the hole with sand. And that is precisely what had happened here... It looked as if we were in for what the Inlander calls a ‘perisher’.
c. Naval slang. A periscope. Hence in extended uses (see quot. 1962).
1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 221 Perisher, periscope. 1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 139 The Perisher, the C.O.'s course for submarine commanders. 1952E. Young One of our Submarines viii. 115 At one time the course on which we were embarked had been called the Periscope School; hence the grimly humorous contraction ‘Perisher’. Now it was officially the C.O.Q.C., or Commanding Officers' Qualifying Course, but, by tradition we were still known as the perishers. Ibid. 125 Ours happened to be the first perisher course to have Teddy Woodward for instructor. 1962Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 87/2 Perisher, the, periscope course for officers selected to command submarines. A ‘perishing’ difficult examination. 2. An officer undergoing this course, which is officially styled the Commanding Officers Qualifying Course. 1973D. Reeman Go in & Sink! i. 16 We did our Perisher together, and even when I got Tristram he was given Tryphon. |
