Definitions for purse-proud

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Spelling: [purs-proud]
IPA: /ˈpɜrsˌpraʊd/

Purse-Proud is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 334 anagrams from letters in purse-proud (-deopprrsuu).

Definitions for purse-proud

adjective

  1. proud of one's wealth, especially in an arrogant or showy manner.

Origin of purse-proud

First recorded in 1675-85

Examples for purse-proud

Then they were purse-proud and apparently rich, and apt to patronise their country cousins.

See, said these voices, see these purse-proud commoners who deny their parents!

They were not only vulgar and rich, but purse-proud and conceited as well.

Smug, purse-proud and evil, his bloated countenance was most suggestive.

These were insolent and purse-proud, and greedy to increase their wealth by any means in their power.

She was a presumptive heiress, and had not escaped the inflation of the purse-proud.

He was a corpulent, florid man, purse-proud, and self-sufficient.

I can't, for the soul of me, bring myself to say that Bursal's not purse-proud, and you can.

Have they become beggars themselves—the haughty, purse-proud people?

He doesn't know how to be rude, or ill bred, or purse-proud.

Word Value for purse-proud
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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