pursyadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈpəːsi/, U.S.

/ˈpərsi/

Forms: late Middle English purcy, late Middle English– pursy, 1500s porzy, 1500s poursye, 1500s–1700s pursie, 1500s–1800s pursey, 1600s purcie. See also pussy adj.¹

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pursive adj.

Etymology: Apparently variant of pursive adj.; with the ending compare discussion at -ive suffix, and e.g. hasty adj., jolly adj., tardy adj. Compare earlier pursick adj. and later pussy adj.¹

1. Short of breath, wheezy, asthmatic; = pursive adj. Now rare (chiefly English regional (northern)).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > respiratory disorders

pursick1303

pursivea1425

pursy1440

roaring1509

broken-winded?1523

wind-broken1603

crack-winded1680

thick-windeda1694

musical1831

bellows to mend1854

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 416 Purcy [?a1475 Winch. Pursy], in wynd drawynge, cardiacus.

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 100^v Pursy, cardiacus et cardiocus.

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. D ij We ought to take good hede..that we make not our selfe poursye.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie P 812 A pursey man, or that fetcheth his breath often, as it were almost windlesse.

1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia iii. 119 Thy pamperd Steeds are pursie; Driue away.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 51 Good Medicine to cure..short-winded or pursy Horses.

1758 J. Reeves Art Farriery xiv. 106 Let him drink a little; after this ride him gently,..but not hard, for this is dangerous, and may render him pursy.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iii. 9/2 He gurgled out his pursy chuckle of a cough-laugh.

1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. vi. 49 ‘People must be amuthed, Thquire, thomehow,’ continued Sleary, rendered more pursy than ever, by so much talking.

1913 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 19 Oct. 16/2 Francois, with..a pursy short-breathed manner spoke of the governor severely, puffing at him between sentences.

1988 Lakeland Dial. No. 50. 18 Than he startit agean ta fidge an scrammle up intill t' saddle, puffen an wheezlan like a pursy horse.

2. Fat, corpulent. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump

fatc893

frimOE

fullOE

overfatOE

greatOE

bald1297

roundc1300

encorsivea1340

fattishc1369

fleshyc1369

fleshlyc1374

repletea1398

largec1405

corsious1430

corpulentc1440

corsyc1440

fulsome1447

portlyc1487

corporate1509

foggy fata1529

corsive1530

foggish?1537

plump1545

fatty1552

fleshful1552

pubble1566

plum1570

pursy1576

well-fleshed1576

gross?1577

fog1582

forfatted1586

gulchy1598

bouksome1600

fat-fed1607

meatified1607

chuff1609

plumpya1616

bloat1638

blowze-like1647

obese1651

jollya1661

bloated1664

chubbed1674

pluffya1689

puffya1689

pussy1688

sappy1694

crummy1718

chubby1722

fodgel1724

well-padded1737

beefy1743

plumpish1753

pudsy1754

rotund1762

portable1770

lusty1777

roundabout1787

well-cushioned1802

plenitudinous1803

stout1804

embonpointc1806

roly-poly1808

adipose1810

roll-about1815

foggy1817

poddy1823

porky1828

hide-blown1834

tubby1835

stoutish1836

tubbish1836

superfatted1841

pottle-bodied1842

pincushiony1851

opulent1882

well-covered1884

well-upholstered1886

butterball1888

endomorphic1888

tisty-tosty1888

pachyntic1890

barrel-bodied1894

overweight1899

pussy-gutted1906

upholstered1924

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. x. f. 83 They that be by nature very porzy & grosse, liue as long as they that be slender bodyed.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 144 In the fatnesse of these pursie times Vertue it selfe of vice must pardon beg.

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse i. sig. B5 Dyonisyus Heracleota..was growne so pursie that his fatnes would not suffer him to fet his breath.

1654 J. Trapp Comm. Neh. i. 9 (1657) II. 45 Our short legges and pursie hearts cannot hold out here.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 61 She is a broad, squat, pursy, fat thing, quite ugly.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 76 The neck, thick and pursy, is joined to the head.

1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. v. 411 A short pursy man, stooping and labouring at a bass viol, so as to show nothing but the top of a round bald head, like the egg of an ostrich.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. viii. 190 Colney could not or would not praise our modern adventurous, experimental, heroic, trampling active, as opposed to yonder pursy passives and negatives.

1935 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 23 Jan. 16/3 With scorn they would scan That fat, pursy, old man, And never believe he was true.

1996 J. Goldthwaite Nat. Hist. Make-believe v. 216 Peaceable, pursy Bilbo Baggins of The Shire.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pursyadj.²

Brit.

/ˈpəːsi/, U.S.

/ˈpərsi/

Forms: see purse n. and -y suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: purse n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < purse n. + -y suffix¹.

a. Of cloth, the skin, etc.: drawn into folds in a manner resembling the mouth of a drawstring purse; puckered; wrinkled. Cf. pursed adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > [adjective] > wrinkled or creased

rivelledlOE

hirpleda1400

runkleda1400

rimpleda1425

wrimpledc1430

crimpled1440

frumpledc1440

runkle?1440

ruscledc1440

crumple1523

wrinkled?1523

creased1545

pursy1552

shrivelled1565

wrinkly1573

crumpled1577

ruffed1578

scrimpledc1590

wrizzled1590

wimpled1599

rucked1600

puckered1606

cappard1608

wrinkleful1608

plighty1615

yfrouncta1643

puggered1653

caperated1657

wreathed1657

pursed1676

crinkly1750

runkly1772

wrinkling1791

ruckya1825

puckery1830

creasy1858

seamy1874

crinkle1886

kinkled1890

bumfled1943

1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 6 §27 If..Cloth..prove either pursie..squally by Warp or Woof.

1613 J. May Declar. Estate of Clothing v. 27 The mill leaues them shame~full in cockelles..pursey, narrower in some places than in other.

1712 G. Sewell tr. C. Quillet in N. Rowe tr. C. Quillet Callipædia ii. 37 Within a Membrane spreads Her [sc. the womb's] various Texture of Mæandrous Threads; These draw the Vessels to a pursy State, And or contract their Substance, or dilate.

1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings II. xxi. 234 His heavy, oily black eyes twinkled in their pursy recesses.

1882 I. Mayo Mrs. Raven's Temptation I. 4 Her pursy mouth softened.

1952 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 4 Nov. 6/7 His smile is uneasy, short-lived and awkward on a rather pursy mouth.

1977 New Yorker 4 July 20/1 Our stiff face and pursy smile slowly break in on their attention.

2006 Amer. Spectator (Nexis) 24 Jan. Democrat senators only kiss up to Supreme Court nominees when they are liberals; so why are so many of them displaying pursy lips after the Alito committee hearings?

†b. Of a cloud: (perhaps) baggy, swollen; heavy. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 74 The pursie Clouds disband, and scatter, All expectsome sudden matter.

2. Of a person: having a full purse; rich, wealthy; (also) proud or arrogant on account of wealth. Now rare.In quots. 1602, 1607 with punning allusion to pursy adj.¹ 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > [adjective] > proud in other ways

pursy1602

lion-sick1609

purse-proud1634

house-proud1822

the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective] > having large amount of money

pecuniousc1400

moneyed1457

well-moneyed1479

purse-full1600

pursy1602

flush1603

moneyful1604

moneyfied1620

millioned1747

millionary1816

millionaire1864

millionairish1874

coiny1891

multimillionaire1893

financialized1898

stakey1919

1602 J. Manningham Diary 29 May (1976) 84 One said yong Mr. Leake was verry rich, and fatt. ‘True,’ said B. Ru[yerd], ‘Pursy men are fatt for the most part.’

1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine i. sig. B4 I had a start out, and by chaunce set vpon a fat steward, thinking his purse had beene as pursey as his bodie.

a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) iii. iv. 32 If you be so pursey, can you lend's any money.

1839 Times 21 Sept. 4/1 Their pursy pride has been signally humbled.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits ix. 146 The pursy man means by freedom the right to do as he pleases.

1905 Daily Chron. 29 Apr. 4/4 He is the precise antithesis of the conventional ‘moneyed man’. A less ‘pursey’ man it would be impossible to imagine.

1994 Independent (Nexis) 26 July (London Travel section) 14 How the city fathers, let alone the proud and pursy university authorities, allowed it to happen beggars comprehension.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pursy
释义	pursyadj.¹ Brit. /ˈpəːsi/, U.S. /ˈpərsi/ Forms: late Middle English purcy, late Middle English– pursy, 1500s porzy, 1500s poursye, 1500s–1700s pursie, 1500s–1800s pursey, 1600s purcie. See also pussy adj.¹ Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pursive adj. Etymology: Apparently variant of pursive adj.; with the ending compare discussion at -ive suffix, and e.g. hasty adj., jolly adj., tardy adj. Compare earlier pursick adj. and later pussy adj.¹ 1. Short of breath, wheezy, asthmatic; = pursive adj. Now rare (chiefly English regional (northern)). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > respiratory disorders pursick1303 pursivea1425 pursy1440 roaring1509 broken-winded?1523 wind-broken1603 crack-winded1680 thick-windeda1694 musical1831 bellows to mend1854 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 416 Purcy [?a1475 Winch. Pursy], in wynd drawynge, cardiacus. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 100^v Pursy, cardiacus et cardiocus. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. D ij We ought to take good hede..that we make not our selfe poursye. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie P 812 A pursey man, or that fetcheth his breath often, as it were almost windlesse. 1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia iii. 119 Thy pamperd Steeds are pursie; Driue away. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 51 Good Medicine to cure..short-winded or pursy Horses. 1758 J. Reeves Art Farriery xiv. 106 Let him drink a little; after this ride him gently,..but not hard, for this is dangerous, and may render him pursy. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iii. 9/2 He gurgled out his pursy chuckle of a cough-laugh. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. vi. 49 ‘People must be amuthed, Thquire, thomehow,’ continued Sleary, rendered more pursy than ever, by so much talking. 1913 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 19 Oct. 16/2 Francois, with..a pursy short-breathed manner spoke of the governor severely, puffing at him between sentences. 1988 Lakeland Dial. No. 50. 18 Than he startit agean ta fidge an scrammle up intill t' saddle, puffen an wheezlan like a pursy horse. 2. Fat, corpulent. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump fatc893 frimOE fullOE overfatOE greatOE bald1297 roundc1300 encorsivea1340 fattishc1369 fleshyc1369 fleshlyc1374 repletea1398 largec1405 corsious1430 corpulentc1440 corsyc1440 fulsome1447 portlyc1487 corporate1509 foggy fata1529 corsive1530 foggish?1537 plump1545 fatty1552 fleshful1552 pubble1566 plum1570 pursy1576 well-fleshed1576 gross?1577 fog1582 forfatted1586 gulchy1598 bouksome1600 fat-fed1607 meatified1607 chuff1609 plumpya1616 bloat1638 blowze-like1647 obese1651 jollya1661 bloated1664 chubbed1674 pluffya1689 puffya1689 pussy1688 sappy1694 crummy1718 chubby1722 fodgel1724 well-padded1737 beefy1743 plumpish1753 pudsy1754 rotund1762 portable1770 lusty1777 roundabout1787 well-cushioned1802 plenitudinous1803 stout1804 embonpointc1806 roly-poly1808 adipose1810 roll-about1815 foggy1817 poddy1823 porky1828 hide-blown1834 tubby1835 stoutish1836 tubbish1836 superfatted1841 pottle-bodied1842 pincushiony1851 opulent1882 well-covered1884 well-upholstered1886 butterball1888 endomorphic1888 tisty-tosty1888 pachyntic1890 barrel-bodied1894 overweight1899 pussy-gutted1906 upholstered1924 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. x. f. 83 They that be by nature very porzy & grosse, liue as long as they that be slender bodyed. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 144 In the fatnesse of these pursie times Vertue it selfe of vice must pardon beg. View more context for this quotation 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse i. sig. B5 Dyonisyus Heracleota..was growne so pursie that his fatnes would not suffer him to fet his breath. 1654 J. Trapp Comm. Neh. i. 9 (1657) II. 45 Our short legges and pursie hearts cannot hold out here. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 61 She is a broad, squat, pursy, fat thing, quite ugly. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 76 The neck, thick and pursy, is joined to the head. 1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. v. 411 A short pursy man, stooping and labouring at a bass viol, so as to show nothing but the top of a round bald head, like the egg of an ostrich. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. viii. 190 Colney could not or would not praise our modern adventurous, experimental, heroic, trampling active, as opposed to yonder pursy passives and negatives. 1935 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 23 Jan. 16/3 With scorn they would scan That fat, pursy, old man, And never believe he was true. 1996 J. Goldthwaite Nat. Hist. Make-believe v. 216 Peaceable, pursy Bilbo Baggins of The Shire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pursyadj.² Brit. /ˈpəːsi/, U.S. /ˈpərsi/ Forms: see purse n. and -y suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: purse n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < purse n. + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Of cloth, the skin, etc.: drawn into folds in a manner resembling the mouth of a drawstring purse; puckered; wrinkled. Cf. pursed adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > [adjective] > wrinkled or creased rivelledlOE hirpleda1400 runkleda1400 rimpleda1425 wrimpledc1430 crimpled1440 frumpledc1440 runkle?1440 ruscledc1440 crumple1523 wrinkled?1523 creased1545 pursy1552 shrivelled1565 wrinkly1573 crumpled1577 ruffed1578 scrimpledc1590 wrizzled1590 wimpled1599 rucked1600 puckered1606 cappard1608 wrinkleful1608 plighty1615 yfrouncta1643 puggered1653 caperated1657 wreathed1657 pursed1676 crinkly1750 runkly1772 wrinkling1791 ruckya1825 puckery1830 creasy1858 seamy1874 crinkle1886 kinkled1890 bumfled1943 1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 6 §27 If..Cloth..prove either pursie..squally by Warp or Woof. 1613 J. May Declar. Estate of Clothing v. 27 The mill leaues them shame~full in cockelles..pursey, narrower in some places than in other. 1712 G. Sewell tr. C. Quillet in N. Rowe tr. C. Quillet Callipædia ii. 37 Within a Membrane spreads Her [sc. the womb's] various Texture of Mæandrous Threads; These draw the Vessels to a pursy State, And or contract their Substance, or dilate. 1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings II. xxi. 234 His heavy, oily black eyes twinkled in their pursy recesses. 1882 I. Mayo Mrs. Raven's Temptation I. 4 Her pursy mouth softened. 1952 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 4 Nov. 6/7 His smile is uneasy, short-lived and awkward on a rather pursy mouth. 1977 New Yorker 4 July 20/1 Our stiff face and pursy smile slowly break in on their attention. 2006 Amer. Spectator (Nexis) 24 Jan. Democrat senators only kiss up to Supreme Court nominees when they are liberals; so why are so many of them displaying pursy lips after the Alito committee hearings? †b. Of a cloud: (perhaps) baggy, swollen; heavy. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 74 The pursie Clouds disband, and scatter, All expectsome sudden matter. 2. Of a person: having a full purse; rich, wealthy; (also) proud or arrogant on account of wealth. Now rare.In quots. 1602, 1607 with punning allusion to pursy adj.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > [adjective] > proud in other ways pursy1602 lion-sick1609 purse-proud1634 house-proud1822 the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective] > having large amount of money pecuniousc1400 moneyed1457 well-moneyed1479 purse-full1600 pursy1602 flush1603 moneyful1604 moneyfied1620 millioned1747 millionary1816 millionaire1864 millionairish1874 coiny1891 multimillionaire1893 financialized1898 stakey1919 1602 J. Manningham Diary 29 May (1976) 84 One said yong Mr. Leake was verry rich, and fatt. ‘True,’ said B. Ru[yerd], ‘Pursy men are fatt for the most part.’ 1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine i. sig. B4 I had a start out, and by chaunce set vpon a fat steward, thinking his purse had beene as pursey as his bodie. a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) iii. iv. 32 If you be so pursey, can you lend's any money. 1839 Times 21 Sept. 4/1 Their pursy pride has been signally humbled. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits ix. 146 The pursy man means by freedom the right to do as he pleases. 1905 Daily Chron. 29 Apr. 4/4 He is the precise antithesis of the conventional ‘moneyed man’. A less ‘pursey’ man it would be impossible to imagine. 1994 Independent (Nexis) 26 July (London Travel section) 14 How the city fathers, let alone the proud and pursy university authorities, allowed it to happen beggars comprehension. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹1440adj.²1552
随便看	perfoliation perfoliations perforable perforant perforant path perforate perforate st john's-wort perforate st john'swort perforated perforated muscle perforated tape perforated zinc perforates perforating perforating machine perforating muscle perforating ulcer perforation perforation gauge perforation plate perforation sound perforations perforative perforator perforators

pursyadj.1

pursyadj.2

pursyadj.¹

pursyadj.²