The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pickpurse
Pickpurse \Pick"purse`\, n.
One who steals purses, or money from purses.
--Latimer. Shak.
Wiktionary
pickpurse
n. One who steals purses, or money from purses.
Usage examples of "pickpurse".
Next, meeting Cuthbert Cutpurse and Pierce Pickpurse, he gives them news of a piece of land which has fallen to them by unexpected succession.
Judge Severity arrives on the scene conveniently to lecture him severely and witness his second knavish device, which is no other than to hand over to the Judge the two fugitives from justice, Cutpurse and Pickpurse, for the piece of land of which he spoke is the gallows.
Berowne confesses, on their joint behalf, that they are all pickpurses in love and deserve chastisement.