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Definition: Cutpurse |
CutpurseNoun1. A thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cutpurse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cutpurse Now called "pickpocket." The two words are of historical value. When purses were worn suspended from a girdle, thieves cut the string by which the purse was attached; but when pockets were adopted, and purses were no longer hung on the girdle, the thief was no longer a cutpurse, but became a pickpocket. "To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse." - Shakespeare: Winter's Tale, iv 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CutpurseSynonyms: dip (n), pickpocket (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cutpurse |
| Specialty definitions using "cutpurse": Moll Cutpurse. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Cutpurse" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Cutpurse" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 62.5% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 37.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "cutpurse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Xhepsit, Hajdut (burglar, crack, crook, pilferer, robber, stealer, thief, yegg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | جیب بر (Bung, Dip, Pickpocket), دزدجیب بر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Borsaiolo (jostler, pickpocket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 소매치기. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utpursecay Pungaş (biter, cheat, duffer, fraud, gun, jockey, juggler, knave, lurcher, manipulator, mountebank, pickpocket, pilferer, prig, rascal, rogue, rook, rough, scab, shark, snap, swindler, thief). (various references) Yankesici (bagsnatcher, dip, lifter, pickpocket). (various references) kẻ móc túi (filcher, pickpocket), kẻ cắp (filcher, lurcher, purloiner, stealer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cutpurse": cutpurses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-p-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: precuts. | |
-2 letters: cruets, cruset, curets, cutups, eructs, erupts, precut, purest, pursue, rectus, recuts, spruce, suture, truces, uterus. | |
-3 letters: crept, crest, cruet, cruse, crust, cures, curet, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, cutup, ecrus, eruct, erupt, prest, puces, purse, recut, scute, setup, sprue, spurt, strep, stupe, sucre, super, truce, trues, turps, upset, usurp. | |
-4 letters: ceps, crus, cues. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-p-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: cutpurses, punctures, sculpture, supercute, uppercuts. | |
+2 letters: buttercups, sculptured, sculptures, superscout. | |
+3 letters: apicultures, outproduces, picturesque, superscouts. | |
+4 letters: acupunctures, countercoups, percutaneous, pisciculture, prestructure, pulchritudes, supercluster, superconduct, supercurrent. | |
+5 letters: hypercautious, outreproduces, picturesquely, piscicultures, prestructured, prestructures, sculpturesque, supercautious, superclusters, supercomputer, superconducts, supercurrents, unpicturesque, unspectacular, venipunctures. | |
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