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pick-purse

pick-purse is the alternative form of pickpurse.

Meaning of pickpurse

Noun

pickpurse (plural pickpurses)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who steals purses, or money from purses.
    • Down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pickpurse, up with him, the popish purgatory, I mean.1548 January 18, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough, quoted in Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Cambridge University Press, published 1884, page 71
    Synonyms:
    pickpocket

Forms of pick-purse

pluralpick-purses

Questions about pick-purse

What is pick-purse the alternative form of?
Pick-purse is the alternative form of pickpurse.

Words near pick-purse in the dictionary

  1. pick-off
  2. pick-pocket
  3. pick-pocketed
  4. pick-pocketing
  5. pick-pockets
  6. pick-purse
  7. pick-purses
  8. pick-quarrel
  9. pick-quarrels
  10. pick-six
  11. pick-sixes

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