pursy
/ˈpəːsi
/adjective archaic
1(Especially of a horse) short of breath; asthmatic.
2(Of a person) fat.Turkey was a short, pursy Englishman of about my own age, that is, somewhere not far from sixty.
Derivatives
pursiness
Origin
Late Middle English: reduction of Anglo-Norman French porsif, alteration of Old French polsif, from polser 'breathe with difficulty', from Latin pulsare 'set in violent motion'.