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murse is a noun:
- (United States slang) a man's purse
"quotations" - (United States slang) a male nurse
"quotations"
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is murse?
- Noun usage: quotations
- Noun usage: "I guess I could say that I carry a 'murse', only I prefer to call it a 'bag'." — [http://www.thespoonsexperience.com/archives/2005/03/what_do_you_get_3.php]
- Noun usage: "In this age of metrosexuality, why can't a man carry a murse (man purse) around with him?" — [http://www.capndesign.com/archives/2004/05/unhand_my_man_purse.php]
- Noun usage: "So a guy at my school recently bought a murse. I hestitate to call him my friend...cuz I seriously question his buying decision. A 'murse', you ask? Yah. That's a man purse. That picture is the closest thing I could find to the shape and style of my friend's murse." — [http://www.davidchun.com/archives/000293.html]
- Noun usage: "the folks at the Chicago Tribune found the biggest manly man on the planet to assure you that you don't have to be taking estrogen shots to carry a murse around." — [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1357692/posts]
- Noun usage: "in an episode of friends the character joey played by matt leblanc, carries the european men's handbag, lovingly called the 'murse' or man's purse by some." — [http://www.uwo.ca/visarts/projects/purse/advnfilm.html]
- Noun usage: quotations
- Noun usage: "Scrubs used this one recently, where Elliot couldn't cope with the idea of dating a male nurse ("murse") and Carla was having trouble accepting Turk's marriage proposal: " — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.arts.tv/msg/84e77ae9bc869cb3]
- Noun usage: "As much as I resent the man purse, I resent just as much the author of the piece hijacking the term 'murse'. A 'murse' is, and always has been, a male nurse -- a much more useful shorthand, as I would bet there are 150 male nurses for every man purse actually carried by an American man." — [http://www.thespoonsexperience.com/archives/2005/03/what_do_you_get_3.php]
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of murse are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of murse, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
