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pickpurses

pickpurses is the plural 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

Questions about pickpurses

What is pickpurses the plural of?
Pickpurses is the plural of pickpurse.

Words near pickpurses in the dictionary

  1. pickpockets
  2. pickpole
  3. pickpoles
  4. pickproof
  5. pickpurse
  6. pickpurses
  7. Pickrel
  8. Pickrell
  9. Pickrells
  10. Pickrels
  11. Pickrem

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