Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pursy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pursy \Pur"sy\, a. [OF. pourcif, poulsif, poussif, fr. pousser
to push, thrust, heave, OF. also poulser: cf. F. pousse the
heaves, asthma. See {Push}.]
Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with
pampering; as, pursy insolence. --Shak.
Pursy important he sat him down. --Sir W. Scot.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pursy
adj : breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: {blown}, {gasping},
{out of breath(p)}, {panting}, {short-winded}, {winded}]
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