purler
1 Britishnoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of purler
of unknown origin
Example Sentences
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The animal referred to above went a lovely purler with me this morning, turning a somersault and finishing by laying across my right leg.
From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by P. T. Ross
You’ll come a purler at your first stone wall if you ride with such long stirrup leathers.
From The Revellers by Louis Tracy
The marsh was infested with small drains, and one had to keep one's eyes glued on the ground immediately ahead to avoid coming an unholy purler.
From A Rogue by Compulsion by Victor Bridges
Gel I know—relative of mine she is, by marriage—goes a purler with a chap.
From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Henry Hewlett
It was precisely the attitude of one who has had a purler at football.
From Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories by Henry Seton Merriman
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