Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pursy

Pursy , adjective

[Old French pourcif, poulsif, poussif, from pousser to push, thrust, heave, Old French also poulser: compare French pousse the heaves, asthma. See Push.]

Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence. — Shakespeare
Pursy important he sat him down. — Sir W. Scot