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- noun US slang a
male nurse - noun US slang a
man 'spurse
Etymologies
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Date: September 12th 2008 coorect me if i'm wrong but i think i came up with the word murse in the summer of 2002 on a trip to buenos aires to describe the man-purse. could be wrong. anyway, the
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She had been to the impound lot to extract what Ryan called his murse (short for man-purse), which held an inches-thick trove of lyrics to songs with titles such as: "Into the Abyss," "Shell of an Empty Soul" and "Wolves at the Heels of Saints."
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A decade later, I rode my hipster Xootr scooter to my job as the managing partner of a venture capital firm, with my man purse (or "murse") flapping on the handlebars.
Tom Matlack: Hi, My Name Is Tom and I'm a Techno-Addict Tom Matlack 2010
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A decade later, I rode my hipster Xootr scooter to my job as the managing partner of a venture capital firm, with my man purse (or "murse") flapping on the handlebars.
Tom Matlack: Hi, My Name Is Tom and I'm a Techno-Addict Tom Matlack 2010
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A decade later, I rode my hipster Xootr scooter to my job as the managing partner of a venture capital firm, with my man purse (or "murse") flapping on the handlebars.
Tom Matlack: Hi, My Name Is Tom and I'm a Techno-Addict Tom Matlack 2010
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A decade later, I rode my hipster Xootr scooter to my job as the managing partner of a venture capital firm, with my man purse or "murse" flapping on the handlebars.
Tom Matlack: Hi, My Name Is Tom and I'm a Techno-Addict Tom Matlack 2010
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A decade later, I rode my hipster Xootr scooter to my job as the managing partner of a venture capital firm, with my man purse (or "murse") flapping on the handlebars.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tom Matlack 2010
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Men spend, too, so we also need 'murse' tightening. "carries in his, he replied:" I can't stand loose change in my pocket.
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Hey, I just saw that the Norm Thompson Nantucket bag seems to be on clearance now, in aka "murse"
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For men, some are predicting that the touchscreen tablet may spark a renaissance in the man bag, man's purse or "murse".
Prolagus commented on the word murse
Ugh.
January 31, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word murse
Somewhere in here there's scope for a pun on immersion therapy, but... well, I agree: ugh.
January 31, 2009
etmlbristol commented on the word murse
Murse
Is a noun and a portmanteau. It is a mixture of the words man and purse and is slang.
1. A bag that a stylish man would carry which resembles a messenger bag or a “man purse” which is now becoming more and more popular with celebrities.
2. Refers to a male nurse, a mixture of man and nurse.
Burberry murse alert! http://twitter.com/ninabyte
"In this age of metrosexuality, why can't a man carry a murse (man purse) around with him?"
In an episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S, Matt LeBlanc’s character, Joey carries a man’s handbag (“murse”) around.
In the movie, Meet the Focker’s, Ben Stiller’s character’s profession is a male nurse (“murse”)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/murse
July 14, 2010