Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who steals the purse or from the purse of another.
- n. Same as pickpocket, 2.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who steals purses, or money from purses.
Etymologies
- pick + purse (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Though carefully brought up she was particularly restive under discipline, and finally became launched as a "bully, pickpurse, fortune-teller, receiver and forger" in all of which capacities she achieved considerable notoriety.”
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
“But Dryden has judiciously omitted or softened some degrading and some disgusting circumstances; as the “cook scalded in spite of his long ladle,” the “swine devouring the cradled infant,” the “pickpurse,” and other circumstances too grotesque or ludicrous to harmonise with the dreadful group around them.”
“But Dryden has judiciously omitted or softened some degrading and some disgusting circumstances; as the "cook scalded in spite of his long ladle," the "swine devouring the cradled infant," the "pickpurse," and other circumstances too grotesque or ludicrous to harmonise with the dreadful group around them.”
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author
“Alisting some fat pickpurse friar, with his oily words, belike? ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pickpurse’.
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A Swell Mob
Kinds of thieves.
thief, sneak thief, burglar, cat burglar, picklock, puggard, robber, grave robber, piller, porch climber, prowler, larcenist and 133 more...
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A Whiz Mob
Pickpocket lingo. Words culled from and inspired by this article. See also A Swell Mob and The Grifters.
working single o, cannon, mechanic, dip, wire, tool, shade, stick, stall, pappy, chump, moll buzzer and 54 more...
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