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Definition: Purse-proud |
Purse-proudAdjective1. Proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "purse-proud" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pride | Haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Purse-proud |
| English words defined with "purse-proud": Cobbing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "purse-proud": Dombey ♦ Jarvie. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "purse-proud"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | é'±åŒ…骄傲. (various references) | |
Korean | 지갑 거만한. (various references) | |
Manx | berchys-voyrnagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urse-proudpay.(various references) | |
Scottish | tòiceil. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vây vo vì già u có, hợm mình vì già u có. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-o-p-p-r-r-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: droppers, purposed, purpures, superpro, uproused. | |
-3 letters: dorpers, dropper, ordures, pourers, propers, prosper, prouder, purpose, purpure, pursued, pursuer, repours, spurred, uprouse, usurped, usurper. | |
-4 letters: dopers, dorper, dorser, dourer, douser, drupes, dupers, orders, ordure, pedros, perdus, poseur, poured, pourer, proper, prosed, proser, prudes, pseudo, purred, pursed, purser, pursue, repour, repros, ropers, rouped, roused, rouser, sopped. | |
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