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Cutpurse

noun
1.
A thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places.  Synonyms: dip, pickpocket.





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"Cutpurse" Quotes from Famous Books



... the square, the cattle mart was drawing many, who listened to the noise of the beasts and the shouts of the vendors. Some paused to bargain. Others simply strode about, still looking for the things they had come to seek out. Here and there, a cutpurse slunk through the crowd, seeking his own type of ...
— Millennium • Everett B. Cole
... of Westminster.—I am not quite of DR. RIMBAULT'S opinion, that Long Meg of Westminster is a fictitious personage. I believe her to have been as much a real wonton as Moll Cutpurse was a ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 41, Saturday, August 10, 1850 • Various
... a Villaine: A Slaue, that is not twentieth part the tythe [Sidenote: part the kyth] Of your precedent Lord. A vice[7] of Kings, A Cutpurse of the Empire and the Rule. That from a shelfe, the precious Diadem stole, And put it in ...
— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald


Words linked to "Cutpurse" :   stealer, pickpocket, thief, dip


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