Definitions

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  • noun UK slang, countable A paedophile.
  • noun UK slang, uncountable paedophilia.
  • adjective UK slang Paedophile, paedophiliac.

Etymologies

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Shortening of paedophile

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Examples

  • Even taking into account the other (unproven) cases, I'd go with 'sex pest' rather than 'paedo'.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Even taking into account the other (unproven) cases, I'd go with 'sex pest' rather than 'paedo'.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • And adding to that he gets the 'paedo' jibes from the A block when he comes to the City

    Through the seasons before us.. 2010

  • To recap: Katei Price marked New Year's Eve by dressing her daughter Princess Minimi Tiara in some "paedo" training slap.

    Anorak News Anorak 2010

  • Even taking into account the other (unproven) cases, I'd go with 'sex pest' rather than 'paedo'.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Even taking into account the other (unproven) cases, I'd go with 'sex pest' rather than 'paedo'.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • The fact that the story appears to be an urban myth is often missed by journalists, who refer to it in sensationalist stories published in the very newspapers that attempted to whip up such sentiments in the first place. an article by Brendan O'Neill on the BBC news website, the incident that gave rise to these stories involved a female paediatrician consultant, Dr Yvette Cloete, in Newport, Gwent (not Portsmouth), who returned from work to find "paedo" sprayed on her door, probably by local youngsters.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • Social workers still employed months and years after valid paedo-allegations, and a CEO telling his workers not to investigate anything because there was no cash.

    Through The Looking Glass « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Rev Adam Smallbone (Hollander) has a sex life (his wife refers to his "cock" and there is a scene alluding to masturbation); he is also abused as a "paedo" in the street.

    Holy smoke: religion and television's uneasy pact 2011

  • Having previously been dubbed "the most hated man in Britain" for mocking the media's paedo-scare tactics with his fictional "Nonce Sense" campaign, Morris adopts similarly no-holds-barred tactics with the country's contemporary sacred cow.

    Cemetery Junction; Four Lions; Hot Tub Time Machine 2010

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