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What is the adjective for pursy?

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pursy
  1. Out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness.
  2. Fat and short.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Turkey was a short, pursy Englishman of about my own age, that is, somewhere not far from sixty.”
      “He would have no such assemblage of the clergy until he should grow fat and pursy and need trouble to keep him in breath, he said.”
      “They are pursy cherubs, of oleaginous appearance and of this-worldly, rather than of other-worldly paunch and deportment.”
pursy
  1. Puckered.
  2. Purse-proud, vain about one's wealth.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Turkey was a short, pursy Englishman of about my own age, that is, somewhere not far from sixty.”
      “He would have no such assemblage of the clergy until he should grow fat and pursy and need trouble to keep him in breath, he said.”
      “They are pursy cherubs, of oleaginous appearance and of this-worldly, rather than of other-worldly paunch and deportment.”
pursive
  1. (obsolete) pursy
pursier
pursiest
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