单词 | pursy |
释义 | pursy (once / 40066 pages) adj WORD FAMILY pursy: pursily USAGE EXAMPLESTurkey was a short, pursy Englishman of about my own age, that is, somewhere not far from sixty. Slate(Oct 22, 2015) Coleridge, in his person, was rather above the common size, inclining to the corpulent, or like Lord Hamlet, ‘somewhat fat and pursy.’ Hazlitt, William, Winterslow—Essays and Characters Wr...(2012) Never since he was a child did the pursy old gentleman run as fast as he did now. Wingfield, Lewis, My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III...(2012) adj breathing laboriously or convulsively Syn blown, short-winded, winded breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty |
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