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Meanings of pursy in English
Breathing laboriously or convulsively.
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Usage of pursy in English
1
The generous living of Dawson had made him pursy, almost porcine.
2
Unconsciously dull eyes sparkled and pursy lips vibrated into smiles.
3
By lavender feet clung a big, pursy, lavender-splotched, yellow body.
4
Its big, pursy body was covered with long, furry scales of the purest white imaginable.
5
A pursy grocer considers he is much above either.
6
He obeyed, leading his pursy bride by a string which he tied around her neck.
7
Thither let your good sheep go, your echoes, your wag-tail dogs, your wealthy pursy manufacturers!
8
We are not pursy justices or mooning girls.
9
Big pursy caterpillars could not be picked from their favourite bushes, when there were no bushes.
10
And where dost thou lay the pursy sides?
11
The big pursy abdomen and smaller antennae, that now turned forward in position, proved this a female.
12
The pursy little passenger snapped an acceptance.
13
Turkey was a short, pursy Englishman of about my own age, that is, somewhere not far from sixty.
14
She was three and one-half inches LONG, with a big pursy abdomen, and wings the size of my thumbnail.
15
On the bank appeared a short, crummy, pursy kind of man, whose efforts to board the steamer were notably ridiculous.
16
My Lord Belloniere promised me a lanner, but he wrote to me not long ago that he was become pursy.
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Pursy through the time