Pursy

Definition: Pursy

Pursy

Adjective

1. Breathing laboriously or convulsively.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pursy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Etymology: Pursy \Pur"sy\, adjective. [Old French expression pourcif, poulsif, poussif, from pousser to push, thrust, heave, Old French also poulser: compare to the French expression pousse the heaves, asthma. See Push.]. (Websters 1913)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pursy

Expansion

Adjective: expanded; Verb: larger; (large; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied; edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous; bulbous; (convex); full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying.

Crosswords: Pursy

Albanian

që gulçon, i ngjallur (corpulent, fatty, obese, plump, stout), i dhjamosur (fleshy, obese, porky, tallowy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свит (contracted, self-effacing, shrank, shrunken, tense), който много се задъхва, горделив поради богатството си (purse proud), надменен поради богатството си (purse proud), пълен (absolute, alive, all out, ample, beefy, clear, compendious, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fat, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, implicit, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, murky, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, portly, profound, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, sheer, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, utter, vast, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog), дебел (ample, corpulent, dense, fat, obese, porky, puffy, stout, thick). (various references)

Czech

otylý (corpulent, obese, overweight, podgy), dýchavièný (asthmatic, broken-winded, wheezy). (various references)

Danish

engbroestet (broken-winded, emphysematous, short-winded). (various references)

Dutch

kortademig (asthmatic, wheezy), emphysematisch (broken-winded, emphysematous, short-winded), dampig (fuzzy, misty). (various references)

Finnish

keuhkolaajentumainen (broken-winded, emphysematous, short-winded), ilmapöhöinen (broken-winded, emphysematous, short-winded). (various references)

French

poussif, emphysémateux. (various references)

German

kurzatmig (broken-winded, feeble, lame, short winded), emphysematisch (broken-winded, emphysematous, short-winded), dämpfig (broken-winded, steamy). (various references)

Greek 

χονδρόσ (beefy, big, blocky, bluff, bouncing, burly, clumpy, clumsy, coarse, crass, gristle, gross, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, stubbed, thick, thickset), εμφυσηματικός (broken-winded, emphysematous, short-winded), ασθματικόσ (asthmatic, puffy, wheezy). (various references)

Hungarian

köpcös (dumpy, podgy, squab, squabby, stocky, stodgy, stubby, stumpy, thick-set, tubby). (various references)

Italian

ricco (abounding, abundant, affluent, empire, full, loaded, mellow, moneyed, realm, rich, rich person, richer, rife, sumptuous, valuable, wealthier, wealthily, wealthy, well to do, well-off), increspato (choppy, corrugated, crimped, curly, lumpy, rippling, ruffling, wrinkled), grasso (fat, fatty, fleshy, grease, greasy, gross, obese, tubby), corrugato (corrugated), corpulento (burly, corpulent, fat, full-bodied, obese, portly, stout, tubby), bolso (broken-winded, emphysematous, short-winded), affannoso (breathless, labored, laboured, wheezy, worried). (various references)

Pig Latin

ursypay

Portuguese

ofegante (puffy, purse), obeso (corpulent, fat, obese, porky, purse), gordo (bold, chubby, chuffy, corpulent, dumpy, greasy, gross, loamy, obese, overweight, porky, purse, squabby, thick), enfisematoso (broken-winded, emphysematous, short-winded), dispnéico (purse), de fôlego curto (puffy, purse). (various references)

Romanian

gras (beefy, corpulent, fat, fatty, greasy, handsomely, oily, porky, puffy, rich, rotund, sticky, stout, unctuous, well fed), cu respiraţie, cu creţuri, care respirã greu. (various references)

Russian 

страдающий одышкой (short of breath, short winded, wheezy), сморщенный (contracted, shrunken, withered, wizen, wrinkled), богатый (affluent, crummy, in the money, moneyed, opulent, pregnant, rich, wealthy, well heeled, well-heeled). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

napućen. (various references)

Spanish

ricachón (filthy rich man, well heeled), enfisematico (broken-winded, emphysematous, short-winded), encogido (afraid, constrained, shrunken, timid), barrigón (big bellied, paunchy), asmatico (broken-winded, emphysematous, short-winded), asmático (asthmatic). (various references)

Swedish

tjock och fet, emfysematös (broken-winded, emphysematous, short-winded), andfådd (breathless, out of puff, puffy, short winded, winded). (various references)

Turkish

tıknefes (puffy, short of breath, short winded), katlanmış (bent, folded, pleated, turned, turnup), buruşuk (crease, creased, crinkly, crumpled, lined, liny, ruck, rugose, wrinkled, wrinkly). (various references)

Ukrainian

хворий на задишку (short winded), гладкий (glabrous, glace, lubricious, napless, nonstriated, obese, silken, smooth-faced, unruffled, voluble, waveless), зморщений (contracted, corrugated, creasy, puckered, puckery, shrunken, wrinkled), з запалом, багатий (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, copious, moneyed, oof-bird, oofy, opulent, pinguid, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, redundant, rich, rife, superb, wealthy, well off). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhăn nheo (weazen, weazened, wizen, wizened), nhăn lại, ngắn hơi, mập (cobby, fat), dúm dó, dễ thở dốc ra to béo. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: syrup.

-1 letter: purs, spry, spur, yups.

-2 letters: pry, pur, pus, spy, sup, ups, yup.

-3 letters: up, us.

+1 letter: cyprus, sirupy, sprucy, spurry, syrups, syrupy.

+2 letters: papyrus, pursily, purveys, pylorus, pyurias, splurgy, spurrey, yaupers.

+3 letters: cypruses, euphrasy, gyplures, koupreys, outprays, pleurisy, porously, pyritous, resupply, sprucely, spurreys, sulphury, superbly, superlay, superspy, uroscopy.

+4 letters: leprously, papyruses, parlously, polyurias, profusely, prolusory, prudishly, purposely, purveyors, pyloruses, pyruvates, spluttery, sumptuary, superably, supercity, superhype, supremacy, supremely, underpays, unsprayed.

+5 letters: byproducts, compulsory, coryphaeus, counterspy, cyberpunks, dysprosium, hypercubes, oversupply, paramylums, paronymous, pelycosaur, perigynous, perilously, perimysium, preciously, precursory, presumably, presumedly, presurgery, previously, pterygiums, puromycins, puttyroots, pyrethrums, pyrolusite, specularly, sportfully, spuriously, superalloy, superheavy, superhyped, superhypes, superiorly, superlying, supernally, suppletory, suretyship, suspensory, syncarpous, underplays, upholstery, uropygiums, vaporously, viperously.