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Definition of Pursy
1. Adjective. Breathing laboriously or convulsively.
Similar to: Breathless, Dyspneal, Dyspneic, Dyspnoeal, Dyspnoeic
Definition of Pursy
1. a. Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence.
Definition of Pursy
1. Adjective. fat and short-breathed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pursy
1. short of breath [adj PURSIER, PURSIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pursy
Literary usage of Pursy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Shall sit and pant in your great chairs for ease, And pursy Insolence shall break
his wind ... the Medes • Perfume their breaths, and cure old pursy men. ..."
2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"A Winter Night. 7. Calling the storms to hear him o'er a guilty land ! Lns on
Window, K.'s Arms. But the pursy old landlord just ..."
3. The British Prose Writers by William Temple (1821)
"... 'Twould be a bays: the leaves with no wind* fall; The flowers all excel; with
these the Medes Perfume their breaths, and cure old pursy men. ..."
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