purse
verb/pɜːs/
/pɜːrs/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they purse | /pɜːs/ /pɜːrs/ |
| he / she / it purses | /ˈpɜːsɪz/ /ˈpɜːrsɪz/ |
| past simple pursed | /pɜːst/ /pɜːrst/ |
| past participle pursed | /pɜːst/ /pɜːrst/ |
| -ing form pursing | /ˈpɜːsɪŋ/ /ˈpɜːrsɪŋ/ |
- purse your lips to form your lips into a small tight round shape, for example to show that you do not approve of somethingWord Originlate Old English, alteration of late Latin bursa ‘purse’, from Greek bursa ‘hide, leather’. The current verb sense (from the notion of drawing purse strings) dates from the early 17th cent.
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