Purse

Definition: Purse

Purse

Noun

1. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her bag and found a comb".

2. A sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse; "he made the contribution out of his own purse"; "he and his wife shared a common purse".

3. A small bag for carrying money.

4. A sum of money offered as a prize; "the purse barely covered the winner's expenses".

Verb

1. Contract one's lips into a rounded shape.

2. Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips".

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

Date "purse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Bible

Dream Interpretation

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

Synonyms: Purse

Contraction

Render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain.

Dearness

Noun: dearness; Adjective: high price, famine price, fancy price; overcharge; extravagance; exorbitance, extortion; heavy pull upon the purse.

Expenditure

Verb: expend, spend; run through, get through; pay, disburse; ante, ante up; pony up; open the purse strings, loose the purse strings, untie the purse strings; lay out, shell out, fork out, fork over; bleed; make up a sum, invest, sink money.

Impossibility

Attempt impossibilities; square the circle, wash a blackamoor white; skin a flint; make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, make bricks without straw; have nothing to go upon; weave a rope of sand, build castles in the air, prendre la lune avec les dents, extract sunbeams from cucumbers, set the Thames on fire, milk a he-goat into a sieve, catch a weasel asleep, rompre l'anguille au genou, be in two places at once.

Liberality

Verb: be liberal;Adjective: spend freely, bleed freely; shower down upon; open one's purse strings; (disburse); spare no expense, give carte blanche.

Money

Currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash; dollar, sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence; Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, cash at hand; ready money, ready cash; slug, wad wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough; rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink; argent comptant; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar; checks, dibs.

Nonpayment

Pay under protest; button up one's pockets, draw the purse strings; apply the sponge; pay over the left shoulder, get whitewashed; swindle; run up bills, fly kites.

Poverty

Empty pocket, empty purse; light purse; beggarly account of empty boxes.

Receiving

Take in, catch, touch; pocket; put into one's pocket, put into one's purse; accept; take off one's hands.

Refusal

Verb: refuse, reject, deny, decline, turn down; nill, negative; refuse one's assent, withhold one's assent; shake the head; close the hand, close the purse; grudge, begrudge, be slow to, hang fire; pass.

Thief

Cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher; defaulter; Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob, chevalier d'industrie; shoplifter.

Treasurer

Noun: treasurer; bursar, bursary; purser, purse bearer; cash keeper, banker; depositary; questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller; cambist; money changer; (merchant).

Treasury

Purse strings; pocket, breeches pocket.

Noun: treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper; cash register, kutcherry, bursary; strong box, strong hold, strong room; coffer; chest;(receptacle); safe; bank vault; depository; till, tiller; purse; money bag, money box; porte-monnaie.

Wealth

Long purse, full purse, well lined purse, heavy purse, deep pockets; purse of Fortunatus; embarras de richesses.

Crosswords: Purse

This is a woman chasing a man who stole her purse. (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

You just described the exact contents of my purse. (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

I'm going to save him, even if I have to take your purse, your car keys, or whatever else I have to do. (The Fugitive; writing credit: Allan Burns; Chris Hayward)

Well, at least I don't carry a purse. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Reese, one man's purse is another man's backpack (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

And before I handed her her purse (We Danced; performing artist: Brad Paisley)

She went to hug me and she spilled her purse (Same Old Lang Syne; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg)

And I always carry a purse (Draft Dodger Rag; performing artist: Phil Ochs)

The Purse (1966)

Purse Strings (1933)

The Purse and the Girl (1914)

When Wifey Holds the Purse Strings (1911)

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

Books

• The Mermaid's Purse (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Small Purse [EP] [EP] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• NOTEBOOK PURSE SILVER (reference)

• NOTEBOOK PURSE.BLUE (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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"Purse Seiners upon Puget Sound". In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 22. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Modern tuna purse seiners in port. Credit: Fisheries.

French tuna purse seiner F/V KERGUELEN at Mahe, Seychelles. Note helicopter on flying bridge. It is used to visually search for schools of tuna. Credit: Fisheries.

A wide variety of fish and shellfish species support a mostly small-scale fisher y, operating near to the coast. Over 40 types of gear are used in the Mediterran ean. Most common type is trawlgear for benthic species; coastal purse seiners for small pelagics; trammel and gillnets for inshore species; and purse seines, long surface gill nets, and longlines are used for large pelagic fish. Credit: Fisheries.

High seas fisheries: Ocean pelagic resources living near the surface are exploit ed by purse seiners and surface long-liners . Top: Italian purse seiner fishing in the central Adriatic. Middle: Bluefin tuna caught in the South Tyrrh enian by a purse seiner. Bottom:Distant-water surface longliner operating in the Mediterranean. Credit: Fisheries.

Coastal Pelagic Fisheries: Small coastal pelagic species are exploited by coast al purse seiners. Top: Coastal purse seiners in the harbor of Fuengirola, Spain . Bottom: Anchovies caught in the Alboran Sea by coastal purse seiners and landed in Fuengirola, Spain. Credit: Fisheries.

Men in the purse seine boats standby as the pumping operation proceeds. The menhaden are being lifted to the mother vessel. Credit: Fisheries.

Menhaden fishing - beginning to haul in the purse seine with the power blocks. Credit: Fisheries.

Alaskan purse seiner lifting a catch of herring to the deck. Credit: Fisheries.

Start of purse seine set on the Fish and Wildlife Service Ship JOHN R. MANNING. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A man with a sword in his hand demands my purse in the high-way, when perhaps I have not twelve pence in my pocket: this man I may lawfully kill. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Monsieur Madeleine took three Napoleons from his purse and laid them on the table

And Stephen smiled too for he knew now that it was not true that Mr Casey had a purse of silver in his throat

When he opens his purse to give us our reward, thy conscience flies out.

He took out his purse and from it took a folded orange handbill

I took the purse, and opening it, poured all the gold into his palm

At one time, owing to the emptiness of my purse, I saw none of it for more than a month

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Remember, if you take insulin injections, you need to keep some form of sugar-sweetened candy in your purse, at home, at work, and in your car. In case of an episode of hypoglycemia, you will be prepared to treat it immediately. (references)

Business

One of them, named the e-commerce purse, enables direct payment to an e-shop without the e-shop gaining any information about the customer's account or card number. (references)

Travel

Turkey

However, as in other large metropolitan areas throughout the world, there is some crime against tourists, particularly in Istanbul, including pickpocketing, purse snatching and mugging. (references)

Senegal

In Dakar, there has been a relatively high incidence of purse snatching and muggings in a popular restaurant area known locally as "La Petite Corniche," which is located along a three kilometer stretch of coastal road in the southeastern part of the city. (references)

Honduras

Street crime is a principal concern, with thefts, including purse snatchings, pick-pocketing and armed robberies in urban areas on the rise. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "purse": beyond one's purse ♦ change purse ♦ cut purse ♦ dip into one's purse ♦ drain on the purse ♦ ease smb. of his purse ♦ electronic purse ♦ Empty purse ♦ have a long purse ♦ heavy pull upon the purse ♦ Heavy purse ♦ keeper of the privy purse ♦ lady's purse ♦ leather purse ♦ light purse ♦ Long purse ♦ make up a purse for ♦ network purse ♦ privy purse ♦ public purse ♦ purse bearer ♦ purse crab ♦ purse line ♦ purse net ♦ purse of Fortunatus ♦ purse one's lips ♦ purse one's mouth ♦ purse pride ♦ purse proud ♦ purse rat ♦ purse ring ♦ purse rope ♦ purse seine ♦ purse seiner ♦ purse snatcher ♦ purse string ♦ purse up ♦ purse up one's lips ♦ put into one's purse ♦ sea purse ♦ SHEPHARD'S PURSE ♦ shepherds purse ♦ shepherd's purse ♦ stock purse ♦ sword and purse ♦ tight purse ♦ tighten the purse strings ♦ tuna purse seiner ♦ Venus's purse. Additional references.

Beginning with "purse": purse-bar, purse-holding, purse-keepers, purse-lipped, purse-mouthed, purse-mouths, purse-net, purse-netted, purse-pinched, Purse-proud, purse-seine, purse-seiners, purse-seines, purse-seining, purse-snatcher, purse-string, purse-string operation, purse-strings.

Ending with "purse": sea-purse, snatch-purse.

Albanian

të holla (loose change, money, moneys, small change), qese (bag, pouch, sachet, wallet), mundësi financiare, kuletën, kuletë (billfold, handbag, pocket book, pouch, wallet), çantë dore (pocket book). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كيس النقود (pouch), ‏موارد (exchequer, resource, resources), ‏محفظة (billfold, briefcase, handbag, pocket book, portfolio, wallet), ‏مال (assets, be inclined, bend, bent, cant, capital, chattel, coins, estate, feel sympathy for, funds, gold, incline, lean, like, pelf, possessions, property, shekels, skew, slant, slope, sympathize with, tilt, tip), ‏غضن (buckle, crease, pucker, rumple, spray, wrinkle), ‏زم (tighten, tuck), ‏صرة (bundle, package), ‏جائزة مالية, ‏ثروة (fortune, mammon, opulence, pelf, resource, resources, riches, substance, treasure, wealth), ‏شنطة يد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

средства (means, medium, moneys, plant, pocket, resources), скротум (scrotum), свивам за устни, торбичка (pocket, pouch, sac, utricle, vesicle), кесия (paper bag, pocket, pouch, scrip, wash-cloth), набръчквам (cockle, corrugate, crumple, furrow, pucker, ruck, rumple, seam), богатство (abundance, affluence, fortune, mammon, means, moneybags, opulence, pelf, pregnancy, riches, richness, shekels, substance), портмоне, пари (cash, chink, currency, dough, dross, dust, funds, kale, loot, money, needful, pelf, pile, pocket, ready, rhino, scratch, shiners, smart, splosh, stuff, tin, vapor, vapour, wad, wampum), дамска чанта (pocket book). (various references)

Chinese 

錢袋 (wallet), 錢包 (wallet), �'�包 (Wallet). (various references)

Czech

peníze (cash, money, pelf, shekels), penìženka (billfold, wallet), suma (amount, figure, stim, sum), mìšec, cena (award, charge, cost, costs, figure, merit, premium, price, prize, quotation, rate, tariff, valuation, value, worth, worthiness). (various references)

Danish

pung (wallet), børs (wallet). (various references)

Dutch

portemonnee (wallet), geldbuidel (wallet), beurs (stock exchange, wallet). (various references)

Esperanto

monujo (wallet). (various references)

Faeroese

pungur (bag, sack, wallet), pengapungur (wallet). (various references)

Farsi 

پول دزدیدن , پول (Deposit, Gold, Lucre, Money, Muck, Payment, Remittance, Rhino, Specie), کیف پول (Pouch, Wallet), کیسه پول , کیسه (Bag, Bung, Capsule, Cod, Cyst, Pouch, Sack, Sinus), وجوهات خزانه , غنچه کردن , جیب بری کردن , جیب (Pocket, Sinus, Tangent), جمع کردن (Add, Agglomerate, Aggregate, Callup, Cluster, Collect, Constrict, Convene, Eke, Gather, Gross, Immobilize, In, Reef, Rollup, Total, Tote), داراءی (Asset, Estate, Fortune, Possession, Property, Thing, Wealth). (various references)

Finnish

rahapussi, rahakukkaro, kukkaro. (various references)

French

porte-monnaie (change purse, coin purse), sacoche. (various references)

German

Geldbeutel (pocket), Portemonnaie, handtasche (gripsack, handbag, hand-bag, purseUS), Beutel (bag, packet, poke, pouch, sac, sachet, sack, sacs, wallet), Börse (board, change, exchange, market, stock exchange, stock market, wallet). (various references)

Greek 

πορτοφόλι (pocketbook, wallet). (various references)

Hebrew 

אר� ק (bag, pocket book, wallet). (various references)

Hungarian

pénztárca (change purse, coin purse, pocketbook, small sack). (various references)

Indonesian

kocek (wallet), dompet (billfold, pocket book, wallet). (various references)

Irish

sparán. (various references)

Italian

portamonete (money bag, wallet), borsa (bag, bourse, exchange, fellowship, grant, grip, handbag, pannier, pouch, sack, saddlebag, stock market). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

銭入れ (till), 財布 (wallet), 金入れ (till, wallet), 蝦蟇口 (pouch), 紙入れ (wallet), バ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "bu", par, park, park-and-ride, Parker, parking, parking area, parking driver, parking meter, parking valet, Parkinson, parse, parsec, parser, parsing, partial, partial freezing, pass, PC, percent, percentage, perceptron, percolator, percussion, pergola, personal, personal call, personal check, personal communication, personal computer, personal opinion, personal selling, personality, perspective, purge, purser), フーゼル油 (far, Far East, farce, farm, farm stay, fast, fast back, fast break, fast food, fiber, fiberboard, fiberglass, fiberscope, fibre, fight, fight money, fighter, fighting spirit, file, filename, filesystem, filing system, final, final set, finance, fire, fire alarm, fire insurance, fire storm, fireman, fireproof, firewall, firm, firm banking, firmware, first, first impression, first lady, first run, first-class, first-name, five-star, food, food processor, Fourier, fur, fur coat, furniture, fusel oil, hood, hoop, pharmacy, whodunit), 懐　 (bosom, breast pocket, bust), 懐中物 (pocketbook), 懐 (bosom, bust, pocket), 巾着 (hanger-on, pouch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がまぐち (pouch), ぜにいれ (till), ファイトマネー (fight money), パース (pass), き�"ちゃく (hanger-on, newly arrived, pouch), さいふ (recording a tune in musical notes, wallet, writing melody on music paper), ふと�"ろ (bosom, bust, pocket), かねいれ (till, wallet), かいちゅうもの (pocketbook), かみいれ (wallet). (various references)

Korean 

지갑 (Wallet). (various references)

Manx

sporran (apron, apron of crab, bursa, burse, sporran), rockey (pucker, rumple), craplaghey (contract, corrugate, crinkle, stunt, wrinkle). (various references)

Mohawk

kenhn� ta. (various references)

Norwegian

pung (wallet), pengepung (wallet), børs (stock exchange, wallet). (various references)

Papago

lial kih. (various references)

Papiamen

pòtmòni (wallet). (various references)

Pig Latin

ursepay.(various references)

Polish

portfel (wallet). (various references)

Portuguese

bolsa (bag, bourse, carryall, cod, exchange, pocket, pouch, wallet), porta-moedas, carteira (desk, lectern, pocket-book, school desk, student desk, wallet, writing-table). (various references)

Romanian

pungi (bag), pungã (carrier bag, pocket, pouch), premiu (accolade, bonus, bounty, Garland, gratuity, premium, prize, reward, spoil, stake), portofel (letter box, wallet), portmoneu (note case, pocket book), vistierie (treasury), trezorie, se face pungã, sãculeţ (handbag, pouch), geantã (bag, handbag), face pungã, bani (cash, chink, dough, dust, Jack, kale, lucre, means, money, rhino, the furniture of one's pocket), încreţi (corrugate, crisp, curl, dimple, fold, frizz, frizzle, knit, pleat, ridge, ripple, ruffle, shrivel, wave, wrinkle). (various references)

Romansch

bursa. (various references)

Romany

kisì. (various references)

Russian 

кошелек (change purse, pouch). (various references)

Scottish

tòiceil (purse-proud), sraidean (the plant shepherd's purse), sporan (a purse, hairy, purse : sporan molach). (various references)

Sepedi

sekhwama. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tašna (handbag), novčanik (billfold, notecase, wallet). (various references)

Spanish

portamonedas (pocketbook, wallet), monedero (moneybag, pocketbook), colecta (collect, collection, kitty, quest), bolso (bag, handbag, pocketbook, sack). (various references)

Swahili

pochi (wallet). (various references)

Swedish

portmonnä (wallet), börs (exchange, fond-exchange, pit, stock exchange, wallet), pung (pouch, pounch). (various references)

Turkish

para çantası, para (boodle, brass, bread, cash, chink, chip, coffers, coin, currency, dough, ducat, dust, filthy lucre, funds, green, Jack, kale, lolly, lucre, means, monetary, money, oof, pay dirt, pecuniary, rhino, rock, shekels, shiners, sugar, tin, wherewithal), kese (bag, bath glove, bladder, pocket, pouch, sac, scrip, vesicle), el çantası (handbag, pochette, pocket book, reticule), cüzdan (billfold, pocket book, wallet), ödül (award, guerdon, meed, plume, premium, prize, recompense, remuneration, requital, reward), çanta (bag, briefcase, carrierbag, case, handbag, sack). (various references)

Ukrainian

сумочка (reticule), класти у гаманець, грошовий фонд, гаманець (budget, burse, pouch, wallet), мішок (bag, cod, sack), морщити (pucker, wrinkle), мошонка (scrotum), матня, багатство (affluence, bag, capital, fortune, mammon, means, moneybag, oof, opulence, pocket, profusion, riches, richness, the dollars, thrift, wad, weal, wealth), премія (bonus, premium, prize, reward). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vốn tiền quyên l� m giải thưởng, ví tiền, bìu. (various references)

Welsh

pwrs (bag, udder), balleg (hamper, net), amner. (various references)

fisco, follis, marsuppiis, marsuppium, pera, sacculis, sacculo, sacculos, sacculum, sacculus. (various references)

marsupium, saccellum. (various references)

bursa. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "purse": pursed, purselike, purser, pursers, purses. (additional references)

Words ending with "purse": cutpurse. (additional references)

Words containing "purse": cutpurses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Purse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: durse, pauvres, persa, perse, perseu, persu, prsi, Prsu, prues, prus, pruse, Prusse, Pubsey, pudse, punse, Puraspec, purce, pures, purie, purle, purme, purs, pursa, pursay, pursee, Pursu, purte, puruse, puse, puser, pusey, pusse. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sprue, super.

-1 letter: pure, purs, reps, rues, ruse, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, user.

-2 letters: ers, per, pes, pur, pus, rep, res, rue, ser, sue, sup, ups, use.

-3 letters: er, es, pe, re, up, us.

+1 letter: drupes, dupers, erupts, pareus, pauser, perdus, peruse, poseur, prudes, prunes, pulers, pulser, purees, purest, purges, pursed, purser, purses, pursue, pusher, rupees, spruce, sprues, spurge, superb, supers, supper, uppers, uprise, uprose.

+2 letters: apercus, aruspex, bumpers, croupes, cuppers, dumpers, euripus, gulpers, jumpers, leprous, lumpers, mumpers, oversup, parures, pasture, paupers, pausers, pelorus, percuss, perdues, perfuse, perukes, perusal, perused, peruser, peruses, petrous, pleuras, plusher, poseurs, posture, pourers, pouters, precuts, predusk, presume, prevues, profuse, proteus, pruners, puckers, puffers, pugrees, pullers, pulpers, pulsers, pumpers, punkers, punners, punster, punters, purfles, purgers, purines, purples, purpose, pursers, pursier, pursued, pursuer, pursues, purveys, pushers, pushier, pussier, putters, recoups, repours, repugns, repulse, repumps, reputes, rumples, scauper, screwup, scruple, scupper, slurped, soupier, splurge, sporule, spouter, spruced, sprucer, spruces, spudder, spumier, spurges, spurned, spurner, spurred, spurrer, spurrey, spurted, spurtle, sputter, stumper, sumpter, supered, suppers, suppler, supreme, supremo, suspire, troupes, umpires, upbears, updries, uphroes, upraise, uprates, uprears, uprisen, upriser, uprises, uprouse, upstare, upsurge, uptears, usurped, usurper, yaupers.