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Webster 1913 Edition

Pursy

Pur′sy

,

Adj.

[OF.

pourcif

,

poulsif

,

poussif

, fr.

pousser

to push, thrust, heave, OF. also

poulser

: cf. F.

pousse

the heaves, asthma. See

.]

Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering;

as,

pursy

insolence

.

Shak.

Pursy

important he sat him down.

Sir W. Scot.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pursy

PURS'Y

, a corrupt orthography. [See Pussy.]