English

Alternative forms

• pick-purse

Noun

pickpurse ‎(plural pickpurses)

1. One who steals purses, or money from purses.
   • 1548 January 18, Latimer, Hugh, Sermon of the Plough, quoted in Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Cambridge University Press, published 1884, page 71:

     Down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pickpurse, up with him, the popish purgatory, I mean.

   • 1602, Shakespeare, William, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1:

     No, it is false, if it is a pickpurse.

Synonyms

• See Wikisaurus:pickpocket