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PURSE
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German and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a purser, or for a purse-maker, from an agent derivative of Middle High German seckel, Yiddish zekl ‘purse’, ‘pouch’.English : from Old French seculier ‘secular’, hence a status name for a member of the secular clergy, or a nickname for someone without religious inclination.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of purses and bags, from Middle English cod ‘bag’.English : nickname for a man noted for his apparent sexual prowess, from cod(piece), in Tudor times the garment worn prominently over the male genitals.English : from Middle English cod, the fish (of uncertain origin, perhaps a transferred use of 1), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or seller of these fish, or possibly as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish in some way.Irish : variant of Cody.Irish (County Wexford) : from the Anglo-Saxon personal name Cod.
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English (Dorset)
English (Dorset) : of uncertain origin; perhaps a variant of Pocket(t), from a diminutive of Anglo-Norman French poque ‘small pouch’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of purses and pouches or a nickname. Alternatively it could be from a diminutive of Middle English pouk(e) ‘evil spirit’, ‘puck’, ‘goblin’.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for someone who made bags or purses or for an official in charge of expenditure, from Middle English purse (via Old English from Latin bursa).Scottish : variant of Purser.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree, from the Middle English phrase at(te) asche ‘at (the) ash’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of bags and purses, from German Tasche ‘bag’, ‘purse’. Compare Taschner.
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English
English : from an agent derivative of Middle English purse (see Purse), hence an occupational name for someone who made or sold purses and bags, or for an official in charge of expenditure.Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Sparain ‘son of the purse’, traditionally born by purse-bearers to the Lords of the Isles.
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English (Lincolnshire)
English (Lincolnshire) : occupational name for a maker of bags and purses, from an agent derivative of Middle English pouche ‘purse’, ‘bag’. In the Middle Ages pouches were a universal personal accessory, as clothing with pockets was unknown.
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English
English : from Middle English bagge ‘bag’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of bags and sacks of various kinds, including wallets and purses.English : from the Germanic personal name Bac(c)o, Bahho (see Bacon 1).Swedish : nickname or soldier’s name from Swedish bagge ‘ram’.Danish : from a personal name of uncertain derivation.
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English
English : variant of Girdler.German (Gürtler) : occupational name for a maker of straps and belts, from Middle High German gurtel ‘belt’ (specifically a leather belt with brass fittings, from which a purse would be hung).
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of purses and bags, from Old French sachel ‘little bag’.
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v. t.
To take the lining out of; hence, to empty; as, to unline one's purse.
n.
The office of purser.
v. i.
To steal purses; to rob.
a.
Robbed of a purse, or of money.
a.
Taken from the purse; expended.
v. t.
To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
imp. & p. p.
of Purse
n.
Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.
pl.
of Purseful
n.
A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress.
n.
All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.
n.
A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.
n.
A purse or purse net.
pron. & a.
The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out.
a.
Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.
v. t.
To put into a purse.
a.
Purse-shaped; pouch-shaped.