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pursy

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Definitions

  1. 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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