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manpurse

noun

Etymology

From man + purse.

  1. derived from βύρσα — “hide, wine-skin”
  2. derived from bursa — “leather bag”
  3. inherited from *pusô✻ — “bag, sack, scrip”
  4. inherited from *pusō✻
  5. inherited from purs — “purse”
  6. inherited from purs
  7. compounded as manpurse — “man + purse”

Definitions

  1. A purse worn by a man.

    • A friend of my daughter's saw the Marsee tankbag on my desk and asked if it was my new manpurse.
    • Dressed in a vibrant pink shirt and carrying a designer leather manpurse, Martinez strolled into the visitors' clubhouse late yesterday afternoon and loudly exclaimed, "I'm here! Did anybody miss me?"
    • The new rules also mean no oversized tennis bags stuffed with wine bottles (glass and alcohol are forbidden) and a picnic's worth of food. Ladies, think purse. Gentlemen, think "manpurse."

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for manpurse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA