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Pursy

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Pur´sy
a.1.Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence.
Pursy important he sat him down.
- Sir W. Scot.
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Adj.1.pursy - breathing laboriously or convulsively
short-winded, winded, blown
breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic - not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty; "breathless at thought of what I had done"; "breathless from running"; "followed the match with breathless interest"
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The young man listened to this tale of wrong with all the seriousness that he could maintain; but at the sight of the pursy red-faced man and the dignity with which he bore him, the laughter came so thick upon him that he had to lean up against a tree-trunk.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Meantime I know all about your affairs, and have just got information, by Brown's last letter, that you are said to be on the point of forming an advantageous match with a pursy, little Belgian schoolmistress--a Mdlle.
The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
I bear no love for that pursy Steward, but I thought that we had engaged to fight with one another and that it must be done.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Pyle, Howard View in context
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