purty

[ pur-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Dialect.

New milker with a calf still beside her—purty as a picture, the pair of 'em, and dirt cheap.

The way ye was shootin' along, it looked as though ye'd git to where ye was goin' purty nigh before ye started.

Bill Talpers'd go where he could wear good clothes every day, and his purty wife'd hold up her head with the best of them!

Alice has a leetle money, not that much maybe, en she's purty tight, yit hit might be done.

I'd cut a purty figure with the Yankees if they know'd that some of my men had muskets that were used in the Revolutionary War.

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