Purset vs Pursed - What's the difference?
purset | pursed |
As a noun purset is (obsolete) a purse or purse net. As a verb pursed is ( purse).
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pursed English
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purse Noun
( en noun)
A small bag for carrying money.
* 1550 Mierdman, Steuen, The market or fayre of usurers
- And then mu?t many a man occupie as farre as his pur?e would reache, and ?tretche out his legges accordynge to the length of his couerlet.
(US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
- It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns.
(historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
Synonyms
* (small bag for carrying money) pocketbook; coin purse, change purse
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* (small bag used by women) handbag (especially UK)
* (quantity of money) bursary, grant
Derived terms
* common purse
* make a silk purse of a sow's ear
* murse
Related terms
* bursa, bursar, bursary
* reimburse
See also
* wallet
Verb
( purs)
To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
* 1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)
- When you're feeling in the dumps
- Don't be silly chumps
- Just purse your lips and whistle – that's the thing.
To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
* Shakespeare
- Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
To put into a purse.
* Shakespeare
- I will go and purse the ducats straight.
(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
- I'll purse : I'll bet at bowling alleys.
Synonyms
* pucker
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