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The state of being pursy.
Shortness of breath, especially due to fatness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- 1838, Robert Smith Surtees, Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 2nd edition, 1843, No. I, “The Swell and the Surrey,” p. 6, [...] any slight degree of pursiness that the good steeds may have acquired by standing at livery in Cripplegate, or elsewhere, is speedily pumped out of them by a smart brush over the turf [...]
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The state of being pursy.
Fatness, obesity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- 1595, Thomas Lodge, A Fig for Momus, Epistle VI, cited in J. W. Lever, The Elizabethan Love Sonnet, London: Methuen, 1966, p. 150, You pray me to aduise, and tell you what Will take away your pursiness and fat,
- 1906, Florence Parsons (as “Mrs. Clement Parsons”), Garrick and His Circle, London: Methuen, p. 131, Hogarth’s fine portrait of him, [...] recently acquired by the National Gallery, suggests the double chin and general pursiness of the bon vivant.
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The state of being pursy.
The state of being puckered.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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