purseとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /pɜːs/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /pɝs/
  • 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)s
  • Homophone: perse

名詞

A coin purse

purse (複数形 purses)

1. A small bag for carrying money.
   • 1550 Mierdman, Steuen, 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)
3. A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483:

     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.

同意語

• (small bag for carrying money): pocketbook; coin purse, change purse (especially 米国用法)
• (small bag used by women): handbag (especially 英国用法)
• (quantity of money): bursary, grant

派生語

関連する語

• bursa, bursar, bursary
• reimburse

参考

• wallet

動詞

purse (三人称単数 現在形 purses, 現在分詞 pursing, 過去形および過去分詞形 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, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, Cambridge University Press, 2004, Chapter 9, p. 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 または index finger).

2. To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
   • c. 1603–1604, 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 606515358, [Act III, scene 3], line 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 13.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, OCLC 639975898:

     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.
   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii], line 502:

     And I will go and purse the ducats straight,

4. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “Scornful Lady”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, Act I, scene i:

     Why I'll purse; if that raise me not, I'll bet at bowling alleys, or man whores: I would fain live by others.

同意語

• pucker

派生語

• pursy
• unpurse