pickpurse

See also: pick-purse

English

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Etymology

pick +‎ purse

Noun

pickpurse (plural pickpurses)

  1. One who steals purses, or money from purses.
    • 1548 January 18, Latimer, Hugh, 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, Shakespeare, William, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1:
      No, it is false, if it is a pickpurse.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pickpurse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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