different between purse vs unpursed
purse
English
Etymology
From Middle English purse, from Old English purs (“purse”), partly from pusa (“wallet, bag, scrip”) and partly from burse (“pouch, bag”).
Old English pusa comes from Proto-Germanic *pusô (“bag, sack, scrip”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?s- (“to swell, stuff”), and is cognate with Old High German pfoso (“pouch, purse”), Low German p?se (“purse, bag”), Old Norse posi (“purse, bag”), Danish pose (“purse, bag”). Old English burse comes from Medieval Latin bursa (“leather bag”) (compare English bursar), from Ancient Greek ????? (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”).
Compare also Old French borse (French bourse), Old Saxon bursa (“bag”), Old High German burissa (“wallet”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??s/
- (US) IPA(key): /p?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
Noun
purse (plural purses)
- 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.
- 1550 Mierdman, Steuen, The market or fayre of usurers
- (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
- A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
- (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
- (especially US)
- (small bag used by women): handbag (especially UK)
- (quantity of money): bursary, grant
Derived terms
Related terms
- bursa, bursar, bursary
- reimburse
Translations
See also
- wallet
Verb
purse (third-person singular simple present purses, present participle pursing, simple past and past participle pursed)
- (transitive) To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
- 1901, Matilde Serao, The Land of Cockayne, translator not credited, London: Heinemann, Chapter IV, p. 72, [1]
- The serving Sister pursed up her lips to remind him of the cloistral rule, almost as if she wanted to prevent any conversation between him and the nun.
- 1916, Leonid Andreyev, "An Original" in The Little Angel and Other Stories, translated by W. H. Lowe, New York: Alfred Knopf, p. 85, [2]
- Anton Ivanovich pursed up his lower lip so that his grey moustache pressed against the tip of his red pitted nose, took in all the officials with his rounded eyes, and after an unavoidable pause emitted a fat unctuous laugh.
- 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.
- 2002, R.M.W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, Cambridge University Press, 2004, Chapter 9, p. 403,
- […] Yidinj has just one prefix dja:- 'in the direction of' […] . There is a noun djawa 'mouth' in a number of neighbouring languages […] and it is likely that this developed into the prefix dja:-. The semantic motivation would be the fact that Aborigines typically indicate direction by pointing with pursed lips (in circumstances where Europeans would extend a hand or index finger).
- 1901, Matilde Serao, The Land of Cockayne, translator not credited, London: Heinemann, Chapter IV, p. 72, [1]
- To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 3, 1756-9, [3]
- […] thou […] didst contract and purse thy brow together, / As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain / Some horrible conceit: […]
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 13, [4]
- Upon hearing Billy's version, the sage Dansker seemed to divine more than he was told; and after a little meditation during which his wrinkles were pursed as into a point, quite effacing for the time that quizzing expression his face sometimes wore, "Didn't I say so, Baby Budd?"
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 3, 1756-9, [3]
- To put into a purse.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venise, Act I, Scene 3, 502, [5]
- And I will go and purse the ducats straight,
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venise, Act I, Scene 3, 502, [5]
- (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.
- 1616, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Scornful Lady, Act I, Scene 1, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Edinburgh, 1812, Vol. 2, pp. 147-8, [6]
- Why I'll purse; if that raise me not, I'll bet at bowling alleys, or man whores: I would fain live by others.
- 1616, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Scornful Lady, Act I, Scene 1, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Edinburgh, 1812, Vol. 2, pp. 147-8, [6]
Synonyms
- pucker
Derived terms
- pursy
- unpurse
Translations
Anagrams
- Pre-Us, Rupes, puers, pures, re-ups, reups, rupes, sprue, super, super-
Estonian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?purse/
Noun
purse (genitive purske, partitive purset)
- outburst
- eruption
- explosion
- spurt, gush
Declension
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Derived terms
- seemnepurse
Finnish
Etymology
pursua +? -e
Noun
purse
- (metallurgy) flash
Declension
Anagrams
- persu, perus, perus-, super-
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unpursed
English
Etymology
un- +? pursed
Verb
unpursed
- simple past tense and past participle of unpurse
Adjective
unpursed (not comparable)
- Not pursed.
- 1975, George Daniel Spache, Good reading for the disadvantaged reader: multi-ethnic resources (page 14)
- Obviously, verbal praise or encouragement should not be given without appropriate inflection of the voice and related facial expressions, and yet how often we hear these encouraging cliches fall from unpursed lips in an expressionless face.
- 1975, George Daniel Spache, Good reading for the disadvantaged reader: multi-ethnic resources (page 14)
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