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purselike

adj

Etymology

From purse + -like.

  1. derived from βύρσα — “hide, wine-skin”
  2. derived from bursa — “leather bag”
  3. inherited from *pusô✻ — “bag, sack, scrip”
  4. inherited from *pusō✻
  5. inherited from purs — “purse”
  6. inherited from purs
  7. suffixed as purselike — “purse + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a purse.

    • […] holding his head cocked to the side and his mouth set purselike, as he always did when he was fixing to deliver a pronouncement.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA