pursy adjective4 •Out of breath; short of breath, especially due to fatness.now breathless wrong Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease, And pursy insolence shall break his wind With fear and horrid flight. — 1605 •Fat and short.Now I will give you a Picture of this Wretch: She is a broad, squat, pursy, fat Thing, quite ugly, if any thing human can be so called […] — 1741 •Puckered.So Aunt Bell sat down to table—a bony frame, with an anxious green eye, a pursy mouth, and a sweating sickness of bitter words, seeking to break forth at the earliest opportunity. — 1861 •Purse-proud; vain about one's wealth. formspursier · pursiest