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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
purty

1829, representing a colloquial pronunciation of pretty (adj.).

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purty

a. (context informal English) (eye dialect of pretty English)

Usage examples of "purty".

Kirby done, and I was embarrassed and et three or four pounds of beef and a quart of mashed pertaters, and a big hunk of white bread, and drunk about a gallon of water, because I was purty thirsty.

I kept behind the houses, though the town seemed to be deserted, and purty soon I come to the store where Kirby had told me old man Brenton kept the post office.

So purty soon he pitched right into the cliff-wall and he lammed it so hard with his hind hoofs that a whole section of overhanging rock was jolted loose and hit him right between the ears.

They all looked purty wilted, and Donovan particularly looked very pecooliar in the blanket he had wrapped around his middle.

See, the bresh comes down purty close to the foot of the slope on the other side, and gives us cover.

I had a purty good idee where the holler oak was at, and sure enough I found it without much trouble.

Chawed Ear where the purty gals is as thick as honey bees around a apple tree.

I lay there contemplating, I heard a man come into the wagon-yard, and purty soon I heard him come towards the cabin, but I thought nothing of it.

So purty soon a man led the pinto out of his stall, and swung aboard him and rode off.

She straightened when she heard the hosses, and started to say something, and then her eyes got wide as she seen my elegant companion, and her purty red mouth stayed open.

Miss Margaret board with us, but I was purty well satisfied, because this way I could see her any time I wanted to.

Pembroke was a purty good rider, but he used a funny-looking saddle without no horn nor cantle, and he had the derndest gun I ever seen.

Well, after the meal was over I saddled the hoss and rid into town at a purty lively gait.

After a square meal at the Carlton Hotel you may look on our fare as purty pore stuff.

Her purty, flushed face was turned to Cormac, who knelt with his forehead hid on the bedcovers.