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Meaning of pickpurse | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Someone who steals purses, or money from purses.

obsolete

Examples

“Down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pickpurse, up with him, the popish purgatory, I mean.”
“No, it is false, if it is a pickpurse.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Pickrel Pickrell Pickrem Pickron Picks picks and shovels

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