Pickpurse

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who steals purses, or money from purses. obsolete

    "Down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pickpurse, up with him, the popish purgatory, I mean."

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nippickpocketprig

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"Down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pickpurse, up with him, the popish purgatory, I mean."

Etymology

From Middle English pikepurse, pykeporse, equivalent to pick + purse.

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