pickpurse
nounEtymology From Middle English pikepurse, pykeporse, equivalent to pick + purse.
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Obsolete Someone who steals purses, or money from purses.
- Down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pickpurse, up with him, the popish purgatory, I mean.1548 January 18, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough, quoted in Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Cambridge University Press, published 1884, page 71:
- No, it is false, if it is a pickpurse.1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, scene 1:
- Synonyms
- pickpocket
- Related terms
- cutpurse