purse-proud
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of purse-proud
First recorded in 1675–85
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Are we provincial, power-conscious, purse-proud, Paar-like, puerile, paternal, peace-loving, perceptive, practical, persuasive, principled, or phwhat?
From Time Magazine Archive
Leon Henderson had asked the purse-proud Budget Bureau for $210 million to up his staff of 7,300 to 90,000 price cops and helpers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet it was this bloated, purse-proud city, strangely enough, that proved the ark of refuge for Spain when the innumerable hosts of Napoleon swarmed over the land.
From Southern Spain by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Calvert
Mr. Grimes was forever talking about how he had made his own way in the world without the help of any other person; but he was, nevertheless, purse-proud and arrogant.
From The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery by Gertrude W. Morrison
James Jackson did not fancy hereditary monarchy or purse-proud aristocracy.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
