单词 | purse-picking |
释义 | purse-pickingn. The action of picking or stealing from purses.Apparently rare between the late 17th and 19th centuries. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > cutting or stealing purses > [noun] cutpursing1499 purse-picking1571 purse-taking1598 purse-cutting1623 cutting1700 purse snatching1880 1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. B.6 Dishonour..to theifis in purspyking. 1623 New & Merry Prognost. sig. B4 Plenty of quarrelling, and of Gamesters flocking; Purse-picking, robbing, murther and hanging. 1919 C. Whibley Lit. Stud. 147 Bardolph has no honour to hide... Purse-picking is for him a plain promotion. 1948 G. W. Knight Crown of Life iii. 111 He goes off to sell his wares, and on his re-entry recounts his successful purse-picking. 2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Sept. (Arts section) 13 Fuller realizes how sexy the proximity of the close-up can be, especially in the steamy subway purse-picking sequence at the start. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1571 |
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