pickpursen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpɪkpəːs/, U.S.

/ˈpɪkˌpərs/

Forms: see pick- comb. form and purse n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pick- comb. form, purse n.

Etymology: < pick- comb. form + purse n., after to pick (a person's) purse (see pick v.¹ 11c). Compare earlier cutpurse n.

A. n.

1. A person who steals purses or from purses; = cutpurse n.; (sometimes more generally) a thief. Chiefly archaic in later use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun]

pickpursec1385

pursepick?a1513

purse-picker1549

nipper1585

nip1591

purser1640

c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1998 Ther say I... The pikepurs [v.r. pykpurs].

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. vii. 370 A dosen harlotes Of portours and of pykeporeses [v.rr. pikporses, pyke-purses, pikepurs].

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 121^v The pikepurses and stealers of apparell.

?1566 W. P. tr. C. S. Curio Pasquine in Traunce f. 43 He made a bargain with the Serattanes (who are all common pickepurses) to part the gaine betwene them.

1613 T. Adams White Deuil 46 The picke-purse..doth not so much hurt, as this generall robber.

1727 J. Swift On Dreams in Misc. Last vol. ii. 299 His Fellow Pick-Purse..Fancies his Fingers in the Cully's Fob.

1750 M. Jones Misc. in Prose & Verse 103 Nor dun, nor pick-purse shalt Thou fear, Nor flatt'rer base annoy My ear.

a1849 E. Elliott Poet. Wks. (1876) II. 333 The Pickpurse! she stole my crown-piece.

1889 Dict. National Biogr. XX. 281/1 She donned man's attire, and gained great notoriety as a bully, pickpurse, fortune-teller, receiver, and forger.

1917 J. B. Cabell Cream of Jest v. i. 195 By turn—as murderer,..pickpurse, troubadour,..and in countless other estates—Kennaston tasted those fruitless emotions which it is the privilege of art to arouse.

2002 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 3 July 31 A stew of 30 whores, cut-throats and pickpurses straight from a Rowlandson cartoon.

2. figurative and in extended use.

a. Christian Church (derogatory). As an epithet of the doctrine of purgatory, viewed (sometimes in personified form) as a means of obtaining money for the church, as through payments for masses to be said, etc. Only in purgatory pickpurse, †pickpurse purgatory. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > payment made for specific purpose > for saying mass > use made of doctrine of purgatory to obtain

pickpurse purgatory1528

1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. clx How they make marchaundice with fayned wordes, penaunce, a pena et a culpa, satisfaccion, attricion, character, purgatory pyckepurse.

1537 tr. H. Latimer Serm. to Clergie sig. D.ii They that begotte and brought forth, that our old ancient purgatorie pycke pourse [L. Cæterum qui purgatorium illud nostrum antiquum, & lucrosum generarunt].

1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 81^v That most gayneful fornace of the popes pikepurce Purgatorie.

a1591 H. Smith Gods Arrowe (1622) 60 It may be well and justly called Purgatorie Pick~purse; wealth and great riches of the clergy, was the only mark they aimed at.

1712 M. Henry Popery in Wks. (1853) II. 346/2 ‘Purgatory pick-purse’, so it has been called.

1922 W. R. Inge Outspoken Ess. 2nd Ser. 34 The reformers in the sixteenth century complained of ‘Purgatory Pickpurse’.

1964 C. Hill Society & Puritanism Pre-Revolutionary Eng. vii. 287 The end of belief in Purgatory-pick-purse had economic consequences.

†b. gen. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxx. f. 356^v See how Auarice is the pickpurse of secrete and hidden gaine.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella lxxiv I am no pick-purse of anothers wit.

a1602 W. Perkins Cases of Consc. (1619) 332 Inordinate and affected care is commonly a great pickpurse.

1616 R. Niccols Londons Artillery x. 98 The lawes pickepurse, strife twixt friend & friend.

3. Chiefly English regional. Either of two annual weeds, shepherd's purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris, and corn spurrey, Spergula arvensis. Cf. pickpocket n. 2. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > shepherd's purse

pursewortc1300

shepherd's pursea1400

case weeda1500

shepherd's bag1548

shepherd's pouch1568

shepherd's scrip1578

pickpurse1597

poor man's parmacety1597

toothwort1597

toywort1597

shepherd's pedler1811

pickpocket1854

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > corn-spurrey

corn-spurrey1771

yarr1775

pickpurse1787

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 215 Shepheardes purse is called..in the North part..Pickepurse, and Caseweede.

1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas Pickepurse an hearbe so called... Shepheards purse or Shepheards Pouch.

1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 385 Pickpurse, or Sandweed, Spergula arvensis, common spurrey.

1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. 110 Pickpurse, a name given to the Dother, or Corn Spurrey, Spergula arvensis.

1999 R. Malster Mardler's Compan. 56/1 Pickpurse, Corn spurrey (Spergula arvensis), a weed which grows commonly on acid soils.

†B. adj. (attributive and appositive).

That is a pickpurse; of or characteristic of a pickpurse. Obsolete (archaic in later use).

ΚΠ

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 204 Pynit pykpuris pelour.

c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Bv Hyghe law, [signifieth] robbery, Figginge law, picke purse crafte.

1612 W. Fennor Cornu-copiæ 4 To see a pilfring and a pick-purse knaue,..Diue to the bottome of a true mans purse.

1881 A. C. Swinburne Mary Stuart ii. ii. 82 I stood spoiled of all As of my letters and my privy coin By pickpurse hands of office.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pickpurse
释义	pickpursen.adj. Brit. /ˈpɪkpəːs/, U.S. /ˈpɪkˌpərs/ Forms: see pick- comb. form and purse n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pick- comb. form, purse n. Etymology: < pick- comb. form + purse n., after to pick (a person's) purse (see pick v.¹ 11c). Compare earlier cutpurse n. A. n. 1. A person who steals purses or from purses; = cutpurse n.; (sometimes more generally) a thief. Chiefly archaic in later use. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] pickpursec1385 pursepick?a1513 purse-picker1549 nipper1585 nip1591 purser1640 c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1998 Ther say I... The pikepurs [v.r. pykpurs]. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. vii. 370 A dosen harlotes Of portours and of pykeporeses [v.rr. pikporses, pyke-purses, pikepurs]. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 121^v The pikepurses and stealers of apparell. ?1566 W. P. tr. C. S. Curio Pasquine in Traunce f. 43 He made a bargain with the Serattanes (who are all common pickepurses) to part the gaine betwene them. 1613 T. Adams White Deuil 46 The picke-purse..doth not so much hurt, as this generall robber. 1727 J. Swift On Dreams in Misc. Last vol. ii. 299 His Fellow Pick-Purse..Fancies his Fingers in the Cully's Fob. 1750 M. Jones Misc. in Prose & Verse 103 Nor dun, nor pick-purse shalt Thou fear, Nor flatt'rer base annoy My ear. a1849 E. Elliott Poet. Wks. (1876) II. 333 The Pickpurse! she stole my crown-piece. 1889 Dict. National Biogr. XX. 281/1 She donned man's attire, and gained great notoriety as a bully, pickpurse, fortune-teller, receiver, and forger. 1917 J. B. Cabell Cream of Jest v. i. 195 By turn—as murderer,..pickpurse, troubadour,..and in countless other estates—Kennaston tasted those fruitless emotions which it is the privilege of art to arouse. 2002 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 3 July 31 A stew of 30 whores, cut-throats and pickpurses straight from a Rowlandson cartoon. 2. figurative and in extended use. a. Christian Church (derogatory). As an epithet of the doctrine of purgatory, viewed (sometimes in personified form) as a means of obtaining money for the church, as through payments for masses to be said, etc. Only in purgatory pickpurse, †pickpurse purgatory. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > payment made for specific purpose > for saying mass > use made of doctrine of purgatory to obtain pickpurse purgatory1528 1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. clx How they make marchaundice with fayned wordes, penaunce, a pena et a culpa, satisfaccion, attricion, character, purgatory pyckepurse. 1537 tr. H. Latimer Serm. to Clergie sig. D.ii They that begotte and brought forth, that our old ancient purgatorie pycke pourse [L. Cæterum qui purgatorium illud nostrum antiquum, & lucrosum generarunt]. 1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 81^v That most gayneful fornace of the popes pikepurce Purgatorie. a1591 H. Smith Gods Arrowe (1622) 60 It may be well and justly called Purgatorie Pick~purse; wealth and great riches of the clergy, was the only mark they aimed at. 1712 M. Henry Popery in Wks. (1853) II. 346/2 ‘Purgatory pick-purse’, so it has been called. 1922 W. R. Inge Outspoken Ess. 2nd Ser. 34 The reformers in the sixteenth century complained of ‘Purgatory Pickpurse’. 1964 C. Hill Society & Puritanism Pre-Revolutionary Eng. vii. 287 The end of belief in Purgatory-pick-purse had economic consequences. †b. gen. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxx. f. 356^v See how Auarice is the pickpurse of secrete and hidden gaine. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella lxxiv I am no pick-purse of anothers wit. a1602 W. Perkins Cases of Consc. (1619) 332 Inordinate and affected care is commonly a great pickpurse. 1616 R. Niccols Londons Artillery x. 98 The lawes pickepurse, strife twixt friend & friend. 3. Chiefly English regional. Either of two annual weeds, shepherd's purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris, and corn spurrey, Spergula arvensis. Cf. pickpocket n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > shepherd's purse pursewortc1300 shepherd's pursea1400 case weeda1500 shepherd's bag1548 shepherd's pouch1568 shepherd's scrip1578 pickpurse1597 poor man's parmacety1597 toothwort1597 toywort1597 shepherd's pedler1811 pickpocket1854 the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > corn-spurrey corn-spurrey1771 yarr1775 pickpurse1787 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 215 Shepheardes purse is called..in the North part..Pickepurse, and Caseweede. 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas Pickepurse an hearbe so called... Shepheards purse or Shepheards Pouch. 1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 385 Pickpurse, or Sandweed, Spergula arvensis, common spurrey. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. 110 Pickpurse, a name given to the Dother, or Corn Spurrey, Spergula arvensis. 1999 R. Malster Mardler's Compan. 56/1 Pickpurse, Corn spurrey (Spergula arvensis), a weed which grows commonly on acid soils. †B. adj. (attributive and appositive). That is a pickpurse; of or characteristic of a pickpurse. Obsolete (archaic in later use). ΚΠ a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 204 Pynit pykpuris pelour. c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Bv Hyghe law, [signifieth] robbery, Figginge law, picke purse crafte. 1612 W. Fennor Cornu-copiæ 4 To see a pilfring and a pick-purse knaue,..Diue to the bottome of a true mans purse. 1881 A. C. Swinburne Mary Stuart ii. ii. 82 I stood spoiled of all As of my letters and my privy coin By pickpurse hands of office. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1385
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