Purse

Noun

 * 1) A small bag for carrying money.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 A small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items.
 * 3) A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.

Verb

 * 1)  To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.

Adjectives for Purse
well-filled; borrowed; evading; slow; slender; humble; yawning; long; cunning; shut; over-gorged; privy.

Verbs for Purse
clasp—; cling to—; conceal—; consign —; decorate—; dent—; draw from—; fatten—; fumble in—; lose—; mislay—; pocket—; relinquish—; replenish—; snap—; snatch—; stuff—; suit—; swell—; —accrues; —amasses; —bulges; —flashes.

Adverbs for Purse
coyly; squeamishly; fastidiously; cunningly; aristocratically.

Synonyms for Purse

 * pocketbook; coin purse, change purse
 * handbag
 * bursary, grant

Thesaurus
wallet, bag, balance, bank account, billfold, bottom dollar, bucks, budget, capital, cash, cash reserves, checking account, circumscribe, cockle, command of money, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrict, contract, corrugate, cramp, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, curtail, decrease, dollars, dough, draw, draw in, draw together, exchequer, filthy lucre, finances, fund, funds, furrow, gift, handbag, income, kitty, knit, knot, life savings, lolly, loot, means, money, money belt, money clip, moneys, narrow, nest egg, pecuniary resources, pelf, pocket, pocketbook, poke, pool, pouch, pounds, present, prize, pucker, pucker up, purse strings, ready, reduce, reserves, resources, revenue, reward, riches, ridge, rimple, ripple, ruck, rumple, savings, savings account, scratch, shekels, shillings, shirr, shorten, solidify, strangle, strangulate, substance, treasure, treasury, unregistered bank account, wallet, wealth, wherewithal, wimple, wrinkle,

Etymology
From, from purs:, partly from  pusa:, and partly from  burse:.

pusa: comes from, from , and is cognate with pfoso:,  puse:,  posi:,  pose:. burse: comes from bursa:.

Compare also borse: (: bourse:),  bursa:,  burissa:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: Geldsakkie
 * Arabic: جزدان
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: rahakott, kukkur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 財布
 * Korean: 지갑
 * Macedonian: паричник, кесе,  портмоне
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Ottoman Turkish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian: novčanik, novčarka, kesa
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Afrikaans: Handsak
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: τσαντάκι
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian:, ташна
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: torba, torbica
 * Slovene: torbica
 * Spanish: bolsa, bolso  , bulto   , cartera
 * Swedish: handväska
 * Turkish: el çantası


 * Finnish: määräraha, budjetti
 * French:


 * Italian:
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Verb

 * Finnish: suipistaa, mutristaa
 * German:
 * Serbo-Croatian: napućiti, naškubiti


 * Slovene: našobiti
 * Spanish: fruncir

Anagrams

 * rupes
 * sprue
 * super