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单词 purfly
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purflyadj.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: purfled adj.2
Etymology: Alteration (with suffix substitution: see -y suffix1) of purfled adj.2
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
= purfled adj.2
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1832 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. May 393/2 The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!
1832 T. Carlyle Note Bk. 18 Jan. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. x. 231 Came upon Shepherd, the Unitarian parson of Liverpool, yesterday... A very large, purfly, flabby man.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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