pursy

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pursy [ˈpɜːsɪ]

adj

1. (Medicine / Pathology) short-winded

2. Archaic fat; overweight

[alteration of earlier pursive, from Anglo-French porsif, ultimately from Latin pulsāre to pulsate]

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Adj.

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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