pickpurse

noun

1. Someone who steals purses, or money from purses.

   obsolete

   Down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pickpurse, up with him, the popish purgatory, I mean.

Where it comes from

From Middle English pikepurse, pykeporse, equivalent to pick + purse.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry pickpurse (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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