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pursy

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1. 苦労してまたは発作状態で息をする(breathing laboriously or convulsively)

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pursy

語源 1

From Middle English pursyf (“short of breath, asthmatic”), probably from Old French pousser (“to push; to breathe with difficulty”); see French poussif (“wheezy”).

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pursive (廃れた用法)

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pursy (comparative pursier, superlative pursiest)

Out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iv]:
  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.
- 1796, Hannah More, The History of Mary Wood, London: J. Marshall & R. White, p. 6,^[1]
  We now set off in pursuit of her, all but the farmer, who, being pretty fat and pursy, was not for running a race […]
- 1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], OCLC 4389957:
  ‘ […] People mutht be amuthed, Thquire, thomehow,’ continued Sleary, rendered more pursy than ever, by so much talking […]
- 1904, George Meredith, “Leslie Stephen” in Miscellaneous Prose, London: Constable, 1910, p. 189,^[2]
  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.
Fat and short.
- 1741, [Samuel Richardson], Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], OCLC 1264825423, page 146:
  Now I will give you a Picture of this Wretch: She is a broad, squat, pursy, fat Thing, quite ugly, if any thing human can be so called […]

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