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Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence.

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  1. a. Fat and short-breathed">short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence.
  2. adj. breathing laboriously or convulsively
  3. Fat and short-breathed">short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence. Shak. Pursy important he sat him down. Sir W. Scot.
  4. Fat and short-breathed">short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled withpampering; as, pursy insolence. Shak.Pursy important he sat him down. Sir W. Scot.
  5. s breathing laboriously or convulsively