pursy

pursyadj詞源 1

• 1

  Out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness.

  • 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.
  • We now set off in pursuit of her, all but the farmer, who, being pretty fat and pursy, was not for running a race […]
• 2

  Fat and short.

  • Now I will give you a Picture of this Wretch: She is a broad, squat, pursy, fat Thing, quite ugly, if any thing human can be so called […]
  • […] the vicar […] was particularly fond of boys in general. Not so the doctor, a pursy little man with a terrific frown, who hated boys, especially little ones, with a very powerful hatred.

pursyadj詞源 2

• 1

  Puckered.

  • So Aunt Bell sat down to table—a bony frame, with an anxious green eye, a pursy mouth, and a sweating sickness of bitter words, seeking to break forth at the earliest opportunity.
  • The laundress has bangs And pursy lips And thin hips
• 2

  Purse-proud; vain about one's wealth.