pickpurse

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From Middle English pikepurse, pykeporse, equivalent to pick +‎ purse.

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pickpurse (plural pickpurses)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who steals purses, or money from purses.
    • 1548 January 18, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough[1], quoted in Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Cambridge University Press, published 1884, page 71:
      Down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pickpurse, up with him, the popish purgatory, I mean.
    • 1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, scene 1:
      No, it is false, if it is a pickpurse.

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