Crossword clues for pursy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pursy \Pur"sy\, a. [OF. pourcif, poulsif, poussif, fr. pousser
to push, thrust, heave, OF. also poulser: cf. F. pousse the
heaves, asthma. See Push.]
Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with
pampering; as, pursy insolence.
--Shak.
Pursy important he sat him down.
--Sir W. Scot.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness 2 fat Etymology 2
a. 1 puckered 2 purse-proud, vain about one's wealth
WordNet
adj. breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: blown, gasping, out of breath(p), panting, short-winded, winded]
Usage examples of "pursy".
Big pursy caterpillars could not be picked from their favourite bushes, when there were no bushes.
He is the somewhat elderly man with the thin nose and the pursy mouth sitting directly to my left.
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.
In rear of these walked a pursy little red-faced man, the town clerk, bearing a staff of office in his hand, while the line of dignitaries was closed by the tall and stately figure of Stephen Timewell, Mayor of Taunton.
Nor must I omit to mention the valiant achievements of Antony Van Corlear, who, for a good quarter of an hour, waged stubborn fight with a little pursy Swedish drummer, whose hide he drummed most magnificently, and whom he would infallibly have annihilated on the spot, but that he had come into the battle with no other weapon but his trumpet.
His pursy mouth gaped open, and instinctively his right hand made a slight whipping motion with the tails, which he instantly checked.
He was a short, pursy man, normally scant of breath, but for the last five years he had walked these tops on his daily occupations, and so friendly and kindly had they come to seem to him that he did not realise any arduousness in surmounting them.
With what breadth, yet precision, she reproduced pursy Abbot Boniface, devoted Prior Eustace, wild Christie of the Clinthill, buxom Mysie Hopper, exquisite Sir Percy Shafton, and even tried her hand to some purpose on the ethereal White Lady.
There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and pursy Basque, who have been mentioned above.
Pursy and important, he sat him down at the table, and many a dark word he threw out of benefits to be expected to the convent, and high deeds of service done by himself, which at another season would have attracted observation.
By lavender feet clung a big, pursy, lavender-splotched, yellow body.