adjective (BrE, informal)
1 extremely cold:
It's perishing outside! * I'm perishing!
2 [onlybeforenoun] (old-fashioned) used to show that you are annoyed about sth:
I've had enough of this perishing job!
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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