Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A pickpocket.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing their contents (a practice said to have been common when men wore purses at their girdles); hence, a pickpocket.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
Examples
“The meaning of the term cutpurse was a lot clearer.”
The Soprano Sorceress
“I was not long ago in England, and witnessed there the hanging of one Elizabeth Evans–Canberry Bess, they called her–a notorious murderer and cutpurse, who was taken with her partner, one Thomas Shearwood.”
Simon & Schuster: On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier
“Thirteen-year-old Alan Dale, only son of a poor widow, scrapes a meagre living as a thief and cutpurse in and around the busy town of Nottingham.”
“You, whose conscience is too delicate to continue as a cutpurse, threaten to turn assassin?”
“In which the two brothers cooperate, Gideon resumes his career as a cutpurse, and Tempest House plays host to some unexpected visitors”
“She imagined the explanatory notes: Tended by a maid and a reformed cutpurse, an aristocrat recovers from a dislocated shoulder inflicted on him by a time-traveling henchman.”
“You do not do justice to your reputation as a cutpurse.”
“A murderer and a villain, A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe of your precedent lord, a vice of kings, a cutpurse ... ”
“Why, this is an arrant counterfeit rascal; I remember him now; a bawd, a cutpurse.”
“Another man in tan appeared, his truncheon smacked the cutpurse across the temple, and the youth went to his knees.”
Wellspring of Chaos
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘cutpurse’.
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 194 more...
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 196 more...
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My Little Phonies
Names for the next generation of My Little Ponies. Inspired by Star's list.
juggernaught, flamboyant, cuddly maggot, astrobleme, agroof, windburn, poshlost, crucifer, feedbag, dunderwhelp, nebelwerfer, bliss ninny and 445 more...
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Killjoy et al
Namely, compounds consisting of a verb with a direct object immediately after it, without inflection
killjoy, lickspigot, quakebuttock, throttlebottom, scattergood, scapegrace, swillbowl, tosspot, breakfast, cutthroat, pickpocket, dreadnought and 84 more...
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First I Look at the Purse
purse, Purse, purses, pursed, First I Look at t..., purse money, purse-crew, purse-gang, purser, pursers, coin purse, purse-seine and 39 more...
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