Crossword-Solution: PURSY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pursy | a. | Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PURSY | anagram | PYRUS, SYRUP |
We have 6 clues for the answer “PURSY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Short-winded | 5 answers |
| Puckered | 7 answers |
| puffy | 15 answers |
| Obese | 56 answers |
| Corpulent | 62 answers |
| fat | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PURSY (5)
They met him and his cousin, Captain Odo Wolfburgh, at Oban, and again on the ramparts of Stirling Castle, and the very day that they arrived in Edinburgh, there, in Holyrood, in Queen Mary's chamber, stood the pursy little man, curling his mustache before her mirror.
The archdeacon is engaged against two prebendaries, a pursy full-blown rector assisting him, in all the perils and all the enjoyments of short whist.
Had I gone forth on an innocent errand, I had met a dozen stout priests or a score of pursy money-lenders.
Forgive me this my virtue; For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.
Now the time is flush, When crouching marrow, in the bearer strong Cries of itself, “No more!” Now breathless wrong Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease, And pursy insolence shall break his wind With fear and horrid flight.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1992–2006).