Purselike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of a purse.

    "[…] holding his head cocked to the side and his mouth set purselike, as he always did when he was fixing to deliver a pronouncement."

Example

More examples

"[…] holding his head cocked to the side and his mouth set purselike, as he always did when he was fixing to deliver a pronouncement."

Etymology

From purse + -like.

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