BREATHLESS
ADJECTIVES
► AYNDLESS breathless, out of breath → 1425 obs.
► OUT OF PUFF breathless, out of breath → 1827 sl. & Eng. dial.
► OVERBREATHED out of breath, breathless → 1778 literary usage, obs.
► PUFFLESS breathless, out of puff → 1882 obs.
► PUFFY breathless, panting → 1799
► PURSIVE suffering from shortness of breath; asthmatic → 1425 obs.
► PURSY short of breath, wheezy, asthmatic → 1440 chiefly Eng. dial.
► WINDLESS breathless, out of breath → 1400
NOUNS
► GUSTER a breathless condition → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PURSIVENESS shortness of breath; breathlessness → 1450 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BURSEN BELCH a person who is breathless from corpulence → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► PANKER a person short of breath → 1885 Eng. dial.
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