单词 | pursie |
释义 | pursien. Scottish. Now rare. A (little) purse. ΚΠ a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1800) 208 Thir queans are ay upo' the catch For pursie, pocket-book, or watch. ?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 200 For mony a pursie she had hooked. 1827 C. I. Johnstone Elizabeth de Bruce I. 162 ‘Have ye money for travelling charges?’.. ‘But put up your wee green pursie.’ 1890 M. W. Oliphant Kirsteen II. ii. 32 ‘Bring out the bit pursie,’ said the man, ‘and we'll see, maybe with a kiss into the bargain.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1774 |
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