Did you by any chance mean nurse?
Etymologies
- Blend of male and nurse (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Date: September 12th 2008 coorect me if i'm wrong but i think i came up with the word murse in the summer of 2002 on a trip to buenos aires to describe the man-purse. could be wrong. anyway, the”
“She had been to the impound lot to extract what Ryan called his murse (short for man-purse), which held an inches-thick trove of lyrics to songs with titles such as: "Into the Abyss," "Shell of an Empty Soul" and "Wolves at the Heels of Saints.”
“A decade later, I rode my hipster Xootr scooter to my job as the managing partner of a venture capital firm, with my man purse or "murse" flapping on the handlebars.”
The Huffington Post: Tom Matlack: Hi, My Name Is Tom and I'm a Techno-Addict
“For men, some are predicting that the touchscreen tablet may spark a renaissance in the man bag, man's purse or "murse".”
“A decade later, I rode my hipster Xootr scooter to my job as the managing partner of a venture capital firm, with my man purse (or "murse") flapping on the handlebars.”
“Men spend, too, so we also need 'murse' tightening. "carries in his, he replied:" I can't stand loose change in my pocket.”
“Hey, I just saw that the Norm Thompson Nantucket bag seems to be on clearance now, in aka "murse”
“Chabon brings his prodigiously entertaining verbal intelligence to a very personal investigation of what it means to be a father, a son and a husband at a moment when those job descriptions are so plagued by contradictions that a simple act like buying a bag to put your stuff in - a man purse, or "murse," if you will - is all but impossible.”
“i have see many men with a "murse" and no one thinks anything of it.”
“My 'murse' is just large enough to carry a few legal documents, passport, wallet, small change purse, business cards and personalized note cards, mints, hand sanitizer, family photo and latest book I am reading. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘murse’.
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i_am_scifi's Words
asshat, charlatan, podcast, geek, amazonian, parlez, defile, menagerie, perplex, gotham, metropolis, ghoul and 131 more...
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Manified Words
Words where adding M onto them makes them at once an accurate and demeaning descriptions of hip trends.
mandals, mandles, murse, meggings, manscaping, manorexia, mewelry, manssiere, manpris, man-gagement
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Bags of Holding
duffel, backpack, purse, bindle, briefcase, fanny pack, messenger bag, satchel, suitcase, tote, manbag, murse and 14 more...
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Urban Dictionary
Slang vocabulary, words often found in the Urban Dictionary.
bromance, murse, truthiness, lactard, celebutard, compunicate, wi-five, ginormous, synertunity, strategerize, agreeance, thumple and 34 more...
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little light in the loafers
merman, divine, sassafras, jockstrap, milquetoast, defrocked, poppycock, murse, fabulous, ab fab, panache, gild the lily and 51 more...
Tweets
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etmlbristol Murse
Is a noun and a portmanteau. It is a mixture of the words man and purse and is slang.
1. A bag that a stylish man would carry which resembles a messenger bag or a “man purse” which is now becoming more and more popular with celebrities.
2. Refers to a male nurse, a mixture of man and nurse.
Burberry murse alert! http://twitter.com/ninabyte
"In this age of metrosexuality, why can't a man carry a murse (man purse) around with him?"
In an episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S, Matt LeBlanc’s character, Joey carries a man’s handbag (“murse”) around.
In the movie, Meet the Focker’s, Ben Stiller’s character’s profession is a male nurse (“murse”)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/murse
Jul 14, 2010
vanishedone Somewhere in here there's scope for a pun on immersion therapy, but... well, I agree: ugh. Jan 30, 2009
Prolagus Ugh. Jan 30, 2009