Crossword-Solution: CUTPURSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cutpurse | n. | One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket |
We have 8 clues for the answer “CUTPURSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Street thief in the Bard's era | 1 answer |
| purse cutter | 8 answers |
| Pickpocket? | 11 answers |
| diver | 23 answers |
| Wire | 24 answers |
| thief | 51 answers |
| Robber | 52 answers |
| Dip | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CUTPURSE (5)
Enter Henry crowned: Queene [Mother], Cardinall [of Loraine], Duke of Guise, Epernoone, [Mugeroun,] the kings Minions, with others, and the Cutpurse.
That did I, my lord: Had he had right, he had been hanged ere this; The only captain of the cutpurse crew.
But the age which witnessed the enterprise of Drake and the triumph of Shakespeare knew also the prowess of the highwayman and the dexterity of the cutpurse.
Moll Cutpurse, whose intelligence and audacity were never bettered, was among the bravest of the Elizabethans.
Those there are who give the credit to the valiant Moll Cutpurse; but though the Roaring Girl had wit to conceive a thousand strange enterprises, she had not the hand to carry them out, and the first pickpocket must needs have been a man of action.
Quotes with CUTPURSE (2)
The life of this alien city was lived under the cathedral dome of the sky. People ate where the birds could share their food and gambled where any cutpurse could steal their winnings, they kissed in full view of strangers and even fucked in the shadows if they wanted to. What did it mean to be a man so completely among men, and women too? When solitude was banished, did one become more oneself, or less? Did the crowd enhance one's selfhood or erase it?
I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No — no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2016).