Meaning of PURSY
| Pronunciation: | | 'pursee
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| | Definition: | | [adj] breathing laboriously or convulsively |
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| | Synonyms: | | blown, breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic, gasping, out of breath(p), panting, short-winded, winded |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pur"sy\, a. [OF. pourcif, poulsif, poussif, fr. pousser
to push, thrust, heave, OF. also poulser: cf. F. pousse the
heaves, asthma. See {Push}.]
Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with
pampering; as, pursy insolence. --Shak.
Pursy important he sat him down. --Sir W. Scot.
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