Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness.
2. Fat and short.
3. Puckered.
4. Purse-proud; vain about one's wealth.

Example Sentences

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 […]

‘[…] People mutht be amuthed, Thquire, thomehow,’ continued Sleary, rendered more pursy than ever, by so much talking […]

The chief of the Tramps had a wonderful calculating eye in the observation of distances and the nature of the land, as he proved by his discovery of untried passes in the higher Alps, and he had no mercy for pursy followers.

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.

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

Word Forms

• pursier
• pursiest
• pursive

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