purse

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Etymology

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From Middle English purse, 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”), from Proto-Indo-European *būs- (“to swell, stuff”), and is cognate with Old High German pfoso (“pouch, purse”), Low German pūse (“purse, bag”), Old Norse posi (“purse, bag”), Danish pose (“purse, bag”), Dutch beurs (“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”).

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Noun

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A coin purse

purse (plural purses)

  1. A small bag for carrying money.
    • 1550, Steuen Mierdman, The market or fayre of usurers:
      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.
  2. (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
    • 1987 August 15, Robert Benitez, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 14:
      Master leathercrafter does handcrafted wallets, belts, purses, handbags etc., supporting self and helpers. Good enough to carve fantst art and portraits into leather.
  3. A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
      It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns.
  4. (historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.

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Verb

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purse (third-person singular simple present purses, present participle pursing, simple past and past participle pursed)

Two people with pursed lips
  1. (transitive) To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
    • 1901, Matilde Serao, The Land of Cockayne, translator not credited, London: Heinemann, Chapter IV, p. 72, [1]
      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, [2]
      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.
    • 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life:
      When you're feeling in the dumps
      Don't be silly chumps
      Just purse your lips and whistle – that's the thing.
    • 2002, R.M.W. Dixon, chapter 9, in Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, Cambridge University Press, published 2004, page 403:
      […] 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).
  2. To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], lines 1756-9:
      […] thou […] didst contract and purse thy brow together, / As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain / Some horrible conceit: […]
    • 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XIII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
      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?"
  3. To put into a purse.
  4. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.

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Noun

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purse (genitive purske, partitive purset)

  1. outburst
  2. eruption
  3. explosion
  4. spurt, gush

Declension

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Declension of purse (ÕS type 6/mõte, k-ø gradation)
singular plural
nominative purse pursked
accusative nom.
gen. purske
genitive pursete
partitive purset purskeid
illative purskesse pursetesse
purskeisse
inessive purskes pursetes
purskeis
elative purskest pursetest
purskeist
allative purskele pursetele
purskeile
adessive purskel pursetel
purskeil
ablative purskelt pursetelt
purskeilt
translative purskeks purseteks
purskeiks
terminative purskeni purseteni
essive purskena pursetena
abessive pursketa purseteta
comitative purskega pursetega

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Finnish

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Etymology

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pursua +‎ -e

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpurseˣ/, [ˈpurs̠e̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -urse
  • Syllabification(key): pur‧se

Noun

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purse

  1. excess material that gushes or bursts out, such as plaster from under a brick
  2. (metallurgy) flash (material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould)

Declension

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Inflection of purse (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation)
nominative purse purseet
genitive purseen purseiden
purseitten
partitive pursetta purseita
illative purseeseen purseisiin
purseihin
singular plural
nominative purse purseet
accusative nom. purse purseet
gen. purseen
genitive purseen purseiden
purseitten
partitive pursetta purseita
inessive purseessa purseissa
elative purseesta purseista
illative purseeseen purseisiin
purseihin
adessive purseella purseilla
ablative purseelta purseilta
allative purseelle purseille
essive purseena purseina
translative purseeksi purseiksi
abessive purseetta purseitta
instructive — pursein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of purse (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative purseeni purseeni
accusative nom. purseeni purseeni
gen. purseeni
genitive purseeni purseideni
purseitteni
partitive pursettani purseitani
inessive purseessani purseissani
elative purseestani purseistani
illative purseeseeni purseisiini
purseihini
adessive purseellani purseillani
ablative purseeltani purseiltani
allative purseelleni purseilleni
essive purseenani purseinani
translative purseekseni purseikseni
abessive purseettani purseittani
instructive — —
comitative — purseineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative purseesi purseesi
accusative nom. purseesi purseesi
gen. purseesi
genitive purseesi purseidesi
purseittesi
partitive pursettasi purseitasi
inessive purseessasi purseissasi
elative purseestasi purseistasi
illative purseeseesi purseisiisi
purseihisi
adessive purseellasi purseillasi
ablative purseeltasi purseiltasi
allative purseellesi purseillesi
essive purseenasi purseinasi
translative purseeksesi purseiksesi
abessive purseettasi purseittasi
instructive — —
comitative — purseinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative purseemme purseemme
accusative nom. purseemme purseemme
gen. purseemme
genitive purseemme purseidemme
purseittemme
partitive pursettamme purseitamme
inessive purseessamme purseissamme
elative purseestamme purseistamme
illative purseeseemme purseisiimme
purseihimme
adessive purseellamme purseillamme
ablative purseeltamme purseiltamme
allative purseellemme purseillemme
essive purseenamme purseinamme
translative purseeksemme purseiksemme
abessive purseettamme purseittamme
instructive — —
comitative — purseinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative purseenne purseenne
accusative nom. purseenne purseenne
gen. purseenne
genitive purseenne purseidenne
purseittenne
partitive pursettanne purseitanne
inessive purseessanne purseissanne
elative purseestanne purseistanne
illative purseeseenne purseisiinne
purseihinne
adessive purseellanne purseillanne
ablative purseeltanne purseiltanne
allative purseellenne purseillenne
essive purseenanne purseinanne
translative purseeksenne purseiksenne
abessive purseettanne purseittanne
instructive — —
comitative — purseinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative purseensa purseensa
accusative nom. purseensa purseensa
gen. purseensa
genitive purseensa purseidensa
purseittensa
partitive pursettaan
pursettansa 		purseitaan
purseitansa
inessive purseessaan
purseessansa 		purseissaan
purseissansa
elative purseestaan
purseestansa 		purseistaan
purseistansa
illative purseeseensa purseisiinsa
purseihinsa
adessive purseellaan
purseellansa 		purseillaan
purseillansa
ablative purseeltaan
purseeltansa 		purseiltaan
purseiltansa
allative purseelleen
purseellensa 		purseilleen
purseillensa
essive purseenaan
purseenansa 		purseinaan
purseinansa
translative purseekseen
purseeksensa 		purseikseen
purseiksensa
abessive purseettaan
purseettansa 		purseittaan
purseittansa
instructive — —
comitative — purseineen
purseinensa

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