Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

do a perish

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English

Syllables: do a per-ish
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To suffer privation or hardship of any kind.

Australian usage; Slang

verb

To die, especially to die of thirst; to perish.

Australian usage; Slang

Example Sentences

""I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job. I've got to the point where I can't stick it any longer.""

Usage

Inflected Forms

does a perish (present, singular) doing a perish (participle, present) did a perish (past) done a perish (participle, past)

Questions

What does do a perish mean?: To suffer privation or hardship of any kind.

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