pursiness

pursiness englanniksi

1. The state of being pursy.

2. of breath|Shortness of breath, especially due to fatness.

3. {{quote-book|en|year=1649|author=Charles Hoole|title=An Easie Entrance to the Latine Tongue|location=London|publisher=Joshuah Kirton, II. A Vocabulary of the most common words English and Latine, 21. Of Diseases|page=218|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A44384.0001.001

4. 1838, (w), ''Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities'', London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 2nd edition, 1843, No. I, “The Swell and the Surrey,” p. 6,https://archive.org/details/jorrockssjauntsj1843surt

(..) any slight degree of pursiness that the good steeds may have acquired by standing at livery in Cripplegate, or elsewhere, is speedily pumped out of them by a smart brush over the turf (..)

5. Fatness, obesity.

6. 1595, (w), ''A Fig for Momus'', Epistle VI, cited in J. W. Lever, ''The Elizabethan Love Sonnet'', London: Methuen, 1966, p. 150,https://archive.org/details/elizabethanloves00leverich

You pray me to aduise, and tell you what

Will take away your pursiness and fat,

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1872|author=C. H. Cleaveland|title=Pronouncing Medical Lexicon|location=Philadelphia|publisher=Lindsay & Blakiston|edition=14th|page=202|url=https://archive.org/details/b29007732

8. 1906, Florence Parsons (as “Mrs. Clement Parsons”), ''(w) and His Circle'', London: Methuen, p. 131,https://archive.org/details/garrickhiscircle00parsuoft

(w)’s fine portrait of (w), (..) recently acquired by the (w), suggests the double chin and general pursiness of the ''bon vivant''.

9. The state of being puckered.

10. {{quote-text|en|year=1969|author=Susan Morrow|title=A Season of Evil|url=https://archive.org/details/seasonofevil00morr|chapter=13|page=120|publisher=Doubleday|location=Garden City, NY

11. (quote-book)|title=Starlight|location=New York|publisher=Sonnet Books|chapter=4|page=57|url=https://archive.org/details/starlight00jarr