purse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English purs, from Old English purs (“purse”), partly from pusa (“wallet, bag, scrip”) and partly from burse (“pouch, bag”).
Old English pusa comes from Proto-West Germanic *pusō, from Proto-Germanic *pusô (“bag, sack, scrip”), and is cognate with Old High German pfoso (“pouch, purse”), Low German pūse (“purse, bag”), Old Norse posi (“purse, bag”), Danish pose (“purse, bag”). Old English burse comes from Medieval Latin bursa (“leather bag”) (compare English bursar), from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”).
Compare also Old French borse (French bourse), Old Saxon bursa (“bag”), Old High German burissa (“wallet”).
Inflected forms:
form: purses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: purses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pursing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pursed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pursed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small bag for carrying money.
pos: noun
examples: And then muſt many a man occupie as farre as his purſe would reache, and ſtretche out his legges accordynge to the length of his couerlet.
gloss: A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Master leathercrafter does handcrafted wallets, belts, purses, handbags etc., supporting self and helpers. Good enough to carve fantst art and portraits into leather.
gloss: A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
pos: noun
examples: It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns.
gloss: A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1901, Matilde Serao, The Land of Cockayne, translator not credited, London: Heinemann, Chapter IV, p. 72, https://archive.org/details/landofcockayne00seraiala
The serving Sister pursed up her lips to remind him of the cloistral rule, almost as if she wanted to prevent any conversation between him and the nun.
1916, Leonid Andreyev, "An Original" in The Little Angel and Other Stories, translated by W. H. Lowe, New York: Alfred Knopf, p. 85, https://archive.org/details/littleangelother00andriala
Anton Ivanovich pursed up his lower lip so that his grey moustache pressed against the tip of his red pitted nose, took in all the officials with his rounded eyes, and after an unavoidable pause emitted a fat unctuous laugh.
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle – that's the thing.
[…] Yidinj has just one prefix dja:- 'in the direction of' […]. There is a noun djawa 'mouth' in a number of neighbouring languages […] and it is likely that this developed into the prefix dja:-. The semantic motivation would be the fact that Aborigines typically indicate direction by pointing with pursed lips (in circumstances where Europeans would extend a hand or index finger).
gloss: To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
pos: verb
examples: […] thou […] didst contract and purse thy brow together, / As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain / Some horrible conceit: […]
Upon hearing Billy's version, the sage Dansker seemed to divine more than he was told; and after a little meditation during which his wrinkles were pursed as into a point, quite effacing for the time that quizzing expression his face sometimes wore, "Didn't I say so, Baby Budd?"
gloss: To put into a purse.
pos: verb
examples: And I will go and purse the ducats straight,
gloss: To steal purses; to rob.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
rare
examples: Why I'll purse; if that raise me not, I'll bet at bowling alleys, or man whores: I would fain live by others.
Synonyms: pucker
Related words: bursa
bursar
bursary
reimburse
wallet
Derived words: beggar's purse
belt purse
change purse
coin purse
common purse
cut one's cloth to suit one's purse
cut-purse
cutpurse
devil's purse
dispurse
empty as a pauper's purse
finger purse
gaming purse
hold the purse strings
jail purse
king's purse
lighten someone's purse
long purse
loosen the purse strings
make a silk purse of a sow's ear
you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear
manpurse
man purse
mermaid's purse
murse
pickpurse
pick-purse
power of the purse
prison purse
Privy Purse
public purse
purse-bearer
purse crab
purseful
purseless
purselike
pursemaker
pursemaking
purse net
purse-pride
purse-proud
purse puppy
purser
purse seine
purse snatcher
purse snatching
pursestring
purse string
purseweb spider
sea-purse
sea purse
shepherd's purse
Sutton Hoo purse-lid
tighten the purse strings
pursy
unpurse
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: handsak
lang: Albanian
word: punjashe
lang: Belarusian
word: су́мачка
roman: súmačka
lang: Belarusian
word: то́рбачка
roman: tórbačka
lang: Bulgarian
word: да́мска ча́нта
roman: dámska čánta
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 手提包
roman: shǒutíbāo
lang: Czech
word: kabelka
lang: Danish
word: håndtaske
lang: Dutch
word: handtas
lang: Esperanto
word: mansako
lang: Estonian
word: käekott
lang: Finnish
word: käsilaukku
lang: French
word: sac à main
lang: German
word: Handtasche
lang: Greek
word: τσαντάκι
roman: tsantáki
lang: Hungarian
word: erszény
lang: Hungarian
word: retikül
lang: Hungarian
word: ridikül
lang: Irish
word: mála
lang: Italian
word: borsetta
lang: Macedonian
word: чанта
roman: čanta
lang: Macedonian
word: ташна
roman: tašna
lang: Māori
word: pāhi
lang: Māori
word: puhera
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: håndveske
lang: Iranian Persian
word: چَنْتِه
roman: čante
lang: Polish
word: torebka
lang: Portuguese
word: bolsa
lang: Romanian
word: poșetă
lang: Romanian
word: geantă
lang: Russian
word: су́мка
roman: súmka
lang: Russian
word: су́мочка
roman: súmočka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: то́рба
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: то̀рбица
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tórba
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tòrbica
lang: Slovak
word: kabelka
lang: Slovene
word: torbica
lang: Spanish
word: bolsa
lang: Spanish
word: bolso
lang: Spanish
word: bulto
lang: Spanish
word: cartera
lang: Spanish
word: zacuto
lang: Swedish
word: handväska
lang: Tagalog
word: lukbutan
lang: Turkish
word: el çantası
lang: Ukrainian
word: су́мочка
roman: súmočka
lang: Ukrainian
word: то́рбочка
roman: tórbočka
lang: Ukrainian
word: торби́нка
roman: torbýnka
lang: Unami
word: mënutès
lang: Unami
word: èmsinutay
lang: Uzbek
word: sumka