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cut purse
cut·purse
/
ˈkʌtˌpɜrs
/
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[
kuht
-purs
]
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noun
1.
Older Use.
a pickpocket.
2.
(formerly) a person who steals by cutting purses from the belt.
Origin:
1325–75;
Middle English
cutte-purs.
See
cut
,
purse
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cutpurse
(ˈkʌtˌpɜːs)
—
n
an archaic word for
pickpocket
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
cutpurse
"one who steals by the method of cutting purses, a common practice when men wore their purses at their girdles" [Johnson], mid-14c., from
cut
(v.) +
purse
. The word continued after the method switched to picking pockets.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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