winded, panting, breathing out strenuously; stout, fat; proud because of one's wealth (especially when other distinctions are absent), purse-proud
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Pursy Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutFat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence.
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. pursy important he sat him down. w. scot.
pursy
adj : breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: blown, gasping, out of breath(p) , panting, short-winded, winded]
Adjective
1. breathing laboriously or convulsively
(synonym) blown, gasping, out of breath(p), panting, short-winded, winded
(similar) breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspneal, dyspnoeal
