pursiness

Noun

 * 1) The state of being pursy.
 * 2) Shortness of breath, especially due to fatness.
 * 3) * 1838,, Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 2nd edition, 1843, No. I, “The Swell and the Surrey,” p. 6,
 * any slight degree of pursiness that the good steeds may have acquired by standing at livery in Cripplegate, or elsewhere, is speedily pumped out of them by a smart brush over the turf
 * 1) Fatness, obesity.
 * 2) * 1595,, A Fig for Momus, Epistle VI, cited in J. W. Lever, The Elizabethan Love Sonnet, London: Methuen, 1966, p. 150,
 * You pray me to aduise, and tell you what
 * Will take away your pursiness and fat,
 * 1) * 1906, Florence Parsons (as “Mrs. Clement Parsons”),  and His Circle, London: Methuen, p. 131,
 * ’s fine portrait of, recently acquired by the , suggests the double chin and general pursiness of the bon vivant.
 * 1) The state of being puckered.
 * ’s fine portrait of, recently acquired by the , suggests the double chin and general pursiness of the bon vivant.
 * 1) The state of being puckered.