Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Impecunious; poor.
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Examples
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Oh, and that you are purse-pinched enough to show up in Green Park some days after we agreed to meet to collect a sum that I no longer owed you, because you saw fit to extract immediate payment from me by way of a snatched kiss.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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Oh, and that you are purse-pinched enough to show up in Green Park some days after we agreed to meet to collect a sum that I no longer owed you, because you saw fit to extract immediate payment from me by way of a snatched kiss.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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