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Purfly

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Wrinkled. archaic, rare

    "[T]hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him [Johnson] to school. […] The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!"

Etymology

From purfle + -y.

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