perisher

Definitions

noun An extreme action; the worst thing that could be done, under the circumstances: also, when applied to a person, a ‘bounder’; a ‘blighter’; a thoroughly unacceptable person.

perish +‎ -er

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He became a submariner in 1936 and passed his "perisher" course in 1941.

Army Rumour Service 2010
Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher? '

Mosley faces criticism over 'Nazi' claim 2008
Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher? '

Archive 2008-04-01 2008
So, lingerie aficionado or not, in the end we're in the rather awful position of wishing that Dick Cheney were really as toothless and absurd a perisher as Roderick Spode, the would-be Great Dictator.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
So, lingerie aficionado or not, in the end we're in the rather awful position of wishing that Dick Cheney were really as toothless and absurd a perisher as Roderick Spode, the would-be Great Dictator.

Cheney's Lingerie Legacy 2009
Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?

Matthew Yglesias » Stay Classy, Conservative Blogosphere 2007
Then he most times went in an awful perisher — took a month to it, and was never sober day or night the whole time.

Robbery Under Arms 2004
"The little perisher just plain didn't think of it."

The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
We're goin 'to track the perisher to' is 'orrible doom --

The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915
"Well, if this ain't the rummest go, I'm a perisher!"

The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915