murse
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murse (plural murses)
- (United States slang) a man's purse
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- "I guess I could say that I carry a 'murse', only I prefer to call it a 'bag'." — [1]
- "In this age of metrosexuality, why can't a man carry a murse (man purse) around with him?" — [2]
- "So a guy at my school recently bought a murse. I hestitate to call him my friend...cuz I seriously question his buying decision. A 'murse', you ask? Yah. That's a man purse. That picture is the closest thing I could find to the shape and style of my friend's murse." — [3]
- "the folks at the Chicago Tribune found the biggest manly man on the planet to assure you that you don't have to be taking estrogen shots to carry a murse around." — [4]
- "in an episode of friends the character joey played by matt leblanc, carries the european men's handbag, lovingly called the 'murse' or man's purse by some." — [5]
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- (United States slang) a male nurse
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- "Scrubs used this one recently, where Elliot couldn't cope with the idea of dating a male nurse ("murse") and Carla was having trouble accepting Turk's marriage proposal: " — [6]
- "As much as I resent the man purse, I resent just as much the author of the piece hijacking the term 'murse'. A 'murse' is, and always has been, a male nurse -- a much more useful shorthand, as I would bet there are 150 male nurses for every man purse actually carried by an American man." — [7]
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[edit] Etymology
In Lojbanized spelling.
- Chinese: muse — 暮色 [mù sè]
- English: glimer — glimmer
- Hindi: bramamuxurt
- Spanish: penumbr — penumbra
- Russian: sumirki — сумерки [sumerki]
- Arabic: nurul
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /'murse/
[edit] Gismu
murse
- glimmering; x1 is the [astronomical] twilight/dawn/dusk/half-light/glimmering of day x2 at location x3.
