Actually, another name for a white dwarf is "degenerate star", so maybe we could have "Pervey".
A white dwarf becomes very small but contains a large mass - a teaspoonful of our sun as a white dwarf would weigh as much as an elephant! It's a star that has used up all of its fuel (hydrogen) and, as I recall, over the course of hundreds of billions of years will become a black dwarf.
Of course, most of us will be gone by then ...![]()
hmmm we are all made of star stuff, who knows.