PURSY


Meaning of PURSY in English

adj.1 short-winded; puffy.

2 corpulent.

Derivatives:

pursiness n.

Etymology: ME, earlier pursive f. AF porsif f. OF polsif f. polser breathe with difficulty f. L pulsare (as PULSATE)

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.