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Definitions
breathing laboriously or convulsively
Word origin
From Middle English pursyf (“short of breath, asthmatic”), probably from Old French pousser (“to push; to breathe with difficulty”); see French poussif (“wheezy”).
Used in a sentence
“now breathless wrong Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease, And pursy insolence shall break his wind With fear and horrid flight.”
“We now set off in pursuit of her, all but the farmer, who, being pretty fat and pursy, was not for running a race […]”
“‘[…] People mutht be amuthed, Thquire, thomehow,’ continued Sleary, rendered more pursy than ever, by so much talking […]”
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