Definitions for purses

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purses purse

Spelling: [purs]

IPA: /pɜrs/

Purses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in purses (eprssu).

Definitions for purses

noun

1. a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
2. a small bag, pouch, or case for carrying money.
3. anything resembling a purse in appearance, use, etc.
4. a sum of money offered as a prize or reward.
5. a sum of money collected as a present or the like.
6. money, resources, or wealth.

verb (used with object)

1. to contract into folds or wrinkles; pucker:
2. to put into a purse.

Origin of purses

before 1100; (noun) Middle English, Old English purs, blend of pusa bag (cognate with Old Norse posi) and Medieval Latin bursa bag (≪ Greek býrsa hide, leather); (v.) Middle English pursen to

Examples for purses

When I travel and kids run up to me, all that the girls want to do is look in my purse and put on my lip glosses and chapsticks.

A portly burgher was he, friendly of tongue and free of purse.

It is impossible to doubt that this passion is fatal to more than the purse.

She retrieved a cigarette from her purse and lit it without moving her face away from the screen.

On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.

"The purse I have already given you, Edricson," continued the lady.

These are longer than traditional ads, mini-stories, designed to pull at heart- as well as purse strings.

Any trifle will serve—a purse of gold, or even a jewelled goblet.

The padlocked door down the hall was now open, and I found my purse.

"If your cask is leer, I warrant your purse is full, gaffer," shouted Hordle John.