Pursy

Synonyms for "pursy" (69 found)

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Closest matches (14)

adipose beefy bloated blowzy bosomy brawny burly buxom chubby chunky corpulent corrugated crumpled

Adjective(1 words)

Strong matches (21)

distended dumpy fat flatulent fleshy full furrowed gassy gross heavyset hefty hippy imposing incrassate inflated knitted knotted lusty meaty obese

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overweight

Related words (34)

paunchy plump podgy portly potbellied puckered pudgy puffed up puffy pursed rippled roly poly rotund rugged rugous rumpled short winded square squat stalwart

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stocky stout strapping swollen thickset top heavy tubby tumid turgid well fed windy wrinkled

Adjective(2 words)

short-winded winded

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short winded

derived

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pursily pursiness

derived from

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purse

related to

4 entries

fat puckered purse proud short

similar

5 entries

breathless dyspneal dyspneic dyspnoeal dyspnoeic

Sample sentences

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now breathless wrong Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease, And pursy insolence shall break his wind With fear and horrid flight.

Source: wiktionary

We now set off in pursuit of her, all but the farmer, who, being pretty fat and pursy, was not for running a race […]

Source: wiktionary

‘[…] People mutht be amuthed, Thquire, thomehow,’ continued Sleary, rendered more pursy than ever, by so much talking […]

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The chief of the Tramps had a wonderful calculating eye in the observation of distances and the nature of the land, as he proved by his discovery of untried passes in the higher Alps, and he had no mercy for pursy followers.

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