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- adjective obsolete, nautical, slang Having joined the United States Navy, either because of destitution or in order to flee problems on land.
Etymologies
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From purser ("ship mate in charge of accounting for passengers aboard"), rigged ("fixed"), and parish ("meaning church community ashore"), damned ("forsaken")
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