Qu'est-ce (qui) est pursy - définition
pursy
¦ adjective archaic
1. (especially of a horse) short of breath; asthmatic.
2. fat.
Derivatives
pursiness noun
Origin
ME: reduction of Anglo-Norman Fr. porsif, alt. of OFr. polsif, from polser 'breathe with difficulty', from L. pulsare 'set in violent motion'.
pursy
a.
1.
Fat, corpulent, fleshy, plump, short, thick, pudgy, podgy.
2.
Short-breathed, short-winded, think-winded.
Pursy
·adj Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence.
Exemples du corpus de texte pour pursy
1. The gym–strafed scrawn of the current cabinet often seems of a piece with its pursy sanctimoniousness: who can look at the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, without wishing, as Caesar once did of Cassius, that she more closely resembled Hattie Jacques?