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pursy
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Princeton's WordNet
blown, pursy, short-winded, windedadjective
breathing laboriously or convulsively
Wiktionary
pursyadjective
fat and short-breathed
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
PURSYadjective
Shortbreathed and fat.
Etymology: poussif, Fr.
In the fatness of these pursy times,
Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,
Yea courb and woo for leave to do it good. William Shakespeare.Now breathless wrong
Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease,
And pursy insolence shall break his wind
With fear and horrid flight. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.By these, the Medes
Perfume their breaths, and cure old pursy men. William Temple.An hostess dowager,
Grown fat and pursy by retail
Of pots of beer and bottl’d ale. Hudibras, p. iii.
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pursy
Pursy is a term used to describe someone who is short of breath, typically due to overweight or obesity. It may also describe someone who is self-satisfied or smug. The term originated from the Latin term "pursus" meaning "puffed out".
Webster Dictionary
Pursyadjective
fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence
Etymology: [OF. pourcif, poulsif, poussif, fr. pousser to push, thrust, heave, OF. also poulser: cf. F. pousse the heaves, asthma. See Push.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Pursy
purs′i, adj. puffy: fat and short: short-breathed.—n. Purs′iness. [O. Fr. pourcif (Fr. poussif), orig. poulsif, broken-winded—O. Fr. poulser (Fr. pousser), to push—L. pulsāre, to push.]
Anagrams for pursy »
syrup
pyrus
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of pursy in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pursy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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