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purpler | purler |

As an adjective purpler

is (purple).

As a noun purler is

(uk|colloquial) a headlong fall or tumble or purler can be (australia|colloquial) something extremely good.

purpler

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (purple)

    • purple

    English

    (wikipedia purple)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.
  • * Milton
    • Arraying with reflected purple and gold / The clouds that on his western throne attend.
  • Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
    • to put on the imperial purple
  • * Bible, Exodus xxvi. 1
    • Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and purple , and scarlet.
  • (by extension) Imperial power, (because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings).
  • * Gibbon
    • He was born in the purple .
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.29:
    • The immediate successors of Augustus indulged in appalling cruelties towards senators and towards possible competitors for the purple .
  • Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
  • The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
  • * 2005 , Tipi Paul, Wanna Smoke?: The Adventures of a Storyteller , page 14
    • "Sure, some purple Owlsley."
  • * 2010 , Mark Arax, West of the West , page 221
    • “Purple' smoke is no joke. Especially when it is real '''purple'''. The smell, taste, and high is easily one of the best in the world. One bowl of some ' purple Kush, and I'm done for a couple of hours.
  • * 2011 , Danielle Santiago, Allure of the Game , page 148
    • She preferred to smoke some good purple , but getting high wasn't an option.
  • (medicine) purpura
  • earcockle, a disease of wheat.
  • Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia'' (formerly ''Limenitis ).
    • the banded purple
  • A cardinalate.

    • Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue.
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support, as in purple state'', ''purple city .
  • *2010 , Hal K. Rothman, The Making of Modern Nevada , University of Nevada Press, ISBN 978-0-87417-826-5, page 162:
  • *:In the end, Nevada remained the quintessential purple' state. On the maps that television used to illustrate political trends, Republican states were red and Democratic blue. Nevada blended the colors. It had a bright blue core in the heart of Las Vegas, surrounded by a ' purple suburban belt. Most of the rest of the state was bright red, especially in the rural counties.
  • (label) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
  • Imperial; regal.
  • *(Percy Bysshe Shelley) (1792–1882)
  • *:Hide in the dust thy purple pride.
  • Blood-red; bloody.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:May such purple tears be alway shed.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:I view a field of blood, / And Tiber rolling with a purple blood.
  • Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.

    • Antonyms

    * (having purple as its colour) nonpurple

    Verb

  • To turn purple in colour.
  • * 1999 , David Edelstein, (In Nomine): Corporeal Player's Guide , Steve Jackson Games, ISBN 1-55634-389-2, page 8:
    • The gang leader purpled and raised his gun.

    Derived terms

    * bepurple * born in the purple * purpureal * French purple * purple bird * purple copper ore * purple finch * purple gallinule * purple grackle * Purple Heart * purple loosestrife * purple martin * purple of Cassius * purple of mollusca * purple passage * purple patch * purple prose * purple sandpiper * purple shell * purple state * purpleheart * royal purple * Tyrian purple * visual purple

    See also

    * purpure * rhodopsin * secondary color * English reduplications

    purler

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, colloquial) A headlong fall or tumble.
    • He came a purler on the icy path.
  • * 1869 , “Stonehenge” (editor), The Coursing Calendar for the Autumn Season 1868, Containing Returns of All the Public Courses Run in Great Britain snd Ireland , page 172,
    • Dilston and Savernake: the latter led, and turned, but in trying to kill came down a purler , which completely knocked all the go out of him; Dilston took possession of the hare, and kept it, winning the course in hollow style.
  • * 1954 , British Broadcasting Corporation, , Volume 51, page 67,
    • Her French-speaking table in the dining-room is a riot of second-rate behaviour and dexterously aimed bread-pellets; the stairs outside her bedroom are relentlessly buttered and she comes purler' after ' purler .
  • * 1986 , Judith Saxton (), Family Feeling , 2012, unnumbered page,
    • Yet he was very sure that he had tripped and gone a purler just as he was leaving the Other Place . . . had that made him gash his forehead, once he was back in the pit?
  • * 2003 , Susan Hill, The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read'', ''The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read: And Other Stories , 2011, unnumbered page,
    • ‘You could hold the ladder,’ Mart said, ‘see I don?t come a purler .’
  • (UK, colloquial) A knockdown blow; a blow that causes a person to fall headlong.
  • * 1867 , , 2006, page 60,
    • but, falling with a mighty crash, gave him a purler on the opposite side, and was within an inch of striking him dead with his hoof in frantic struggles to recover.
    Synonyms
    * (headlong fall or tumble) * (incapacitating blow) king hit (Australian)

    See also

    * come a cropper

    Etymology 2

    Uncertain.

    Alternative forms

    * pearler

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, colloquial) Something extremely good.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Top3 best games of all time , group=aus.sport.aussie-rules , author=peter.ryan , date=May 12 , year=2000 , passage=The greatest game ever played is the one marketed with that tag by Australian Football Video:  the 1989 round 6 match at Prince's Park between Hawthorn and Geelong, an awesome display of the skills of the game.  It is doubtful whether two such great sides had ever graced a single season as the Hawks and the Cats did in 1989.  The return match in September was a bit of a purler too, as I recall. citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Best way to transport wreck Syd-Tsv. , group=aus.motorcycles , author=George W , date=December 24 , year=2008 , passage=And just when I had a slight thought that there could be a "Lets be nice to George Week"
    And you come along with that purler . citation