purse-proud
[purs-proud]
- proud of one's wealth, especially in an arrogant or showy manner.
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Origin of purse-proud
First recorded in 1675–85
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Historical Examples of purse-proud
He was a corpulent, florid man, purse-proud, and self-sufficient.
ScaramoucheRafael Sabatini
See, said these voices, see these purse-proud commoners who deny their parents!
The RuinsC. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney
He doesn't know how to be rude, or ill bred, or purse-proud.
PeterF. Hopkinson Smith
She was a presumptive heiress, and had not escaped the inflation of the purse-proud.
Geoffrey HampsteadThomas Stinson Jarvis
I can't, for the soul of me, bring myself to say that Bursal's not purse-proud, and you can.
The Parent's AssistantMaria Edgeworth