| 单词 | purse-emptier |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurse-emptier purse-emptier n. [originally after Italian vuotaborse person who charges a lot of money (1585 as †votaborse ); compare cutpurse n.] a person who costs or charges a lot of money; †a thief (cf. Compounds 1d(b)) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > one who wants or acquires money > specific desirously or avariciously pick-penny1440 scraper1561 grubber1578 coin-cormorant1594 purse-leech1605 purse-emptier1611 pouch-penny1629 purse-sucker1671 gruba1681 money-grub1768 money-grubber1825 scratch-penny1835 get-rich-quicker1914 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > [noun] > highwayman > who takes purses purse-taker1594 purse-catcher1602 purse-emptier1611 purse-snatcher1893 purse-lifter1895 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Vuotaborse A nicke-name giuen to Lawyers or Phisicians, a purce-emptier. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 June 4/1 Worthy of ranking with Turpin, Paul Clifford, and the other celebrated purse-emptiers. 1904 H. D. Sedgwick F. Parkman xviii. 199 That eternal dialogue between the purse-holder and the purse-emptier, which commonly fills so much larger a part in the correspondence between father and son. 2002 This is Local London (Nexis) 31 Dec. The fickle young purse-emptiers are dragging their poor parents halfway across Christendom to find them. < as lemmas |
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