Purdy
[pur-dee] /ˈpɜr di/
noun
1.
James, 1914–2009, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
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[pyoo r] /pyʊər/ adjective, purer, purest. 1. free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water. 2. unmodified by an admixture; simple or homogeneous. 3. of unmixed descent or ancestry: a pure breed of dog. 4. free from foreign or inappropriate elements: pure Attic Greek. 5. […]
- Pure absence
pure absence n. See simple absence.
- Pure and simple
No more and no less, plainly so, as in This so-called educational video is really a game, pure and simple. This expression is very nearly redundant, since pure and simple here mean “plain” and “unadorned.” Oscar Wilde played on it in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895): “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” […]
- Pure as the driven snow
Morally unsullied, chaste, as in She’s just sixteen and pure as the driven snow. This simile dates from the late 1500s, although driven, which means “carried by the wind into drifts,” was occasionally omitted. It is heard less often today.
- Pureblood
[pyoo r-bluhd] /ˈpyʊərˌblʌd/ noun 1. an individual, especially an animal, whose ancestry consists of a single strain or type unmixed with any other. adjective, Also, pureblooded, pure-blooded 2. of or relating to a pureblood. 3. (def 1). adj. 1851, from pure blood (n.), attested from 1751 in reference to breeding, from pure (adj.) + blood […]