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† ˈpurseˌpicker Obs.
A thief who picks purses; a pickpocket. So † ˈpurse-picking.
1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1641) 41 They have all their life after an unsavory smack thereof, and smell still toward day⁓sleepers, pursse-pickers. 1571Buchanan Ane Admonitioun Wks. (1892) 34 Sufferis..purspykaris..to exercise thift and reif as ane craft. Ibid. Dishonour..to thevis in purspyking. 1622J. Taylor (Water P.) Thief Wks. (1630) ii. 121/1 He..may rob the pot, Steale himself drunke, and be his owne Purspicker, And chimically turnes his coyne to liquor. |