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語源

From 中期英語 pikepurse, pykeporse, equivalent to pick +‎ purse.

名詞

pickpurse (plural pickpurses)

1. (obsolete) Someone who steals purses, or money from purses.
   • 1548 January 18, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough‎, quoted in Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Cambridge University Press, published 1884, page 71:

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

   • 1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, scene 1:

     No, it is false, if it is a pickpurse.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:pickpocket

参照

• “pickpurse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

参考

• cutpurse

アナグラム

• pickers-up