peacherino

American  

[pee-chuh-ree-noh] / ˌpi tʃəˈri noʊ /

noun

Informal: Older Use.

• peacherinos
  plural

1. peach.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• peacherinos
  plural

Etymology

Origin of peacherino

First recorded in 1895–1900; peach ¹ + -erino, alteration of -eroo, after Spanish or Italian words ending in -ino

Example Sentences

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peacherino peacherinos

If a feller calls you 'childie' or 'sweet lamb' or tells you you're the peacherino in the peach basket, don't you answer back, but just smile and wend your ways.

From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson

This peacherino has been under cover throughout the meeting, but to-morrow it will be ripe and you want to get in on the killing.

From Young Wallingford by George Randolph Chester

Why, here’s a joke I thought up just the other day, and I don’t mind admitting that it’s a pippin, not to say peacherino.

From The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room by Allen Chapman

Then the fellow called Bill, said: “You amble up to the peacherino on the outside, whiles I take to the inside one, Andy.”

From Polly in New York by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Oh boy, it's going to be a peacherino!

From Roy Blakeley by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

"Here are some more peacherinos," Dave went on, relentlessly, "here is 'Golf Player' out of 'Business' by 'Mosquito,' and here's another good one, 'Eternal Daylights' out of 'Russia' by 'Japan'—like 'em?"

From Get Next! by Hugh McHugh