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

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Etymology

Origin of peacherino

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

peacherino peacherinos

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

"Say, ain't he a peacherino, Mr. Sedgwick," whispered my young hopeful.

From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by William MacLeod Raine

All the same, I’ve raked in this peacherino.

From Into the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennett

"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

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