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purdy

(US, slang, and, dialects, like, _, Southern US, and, Appalachian) pretty.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026

(US, slang, and, dialects, like, _, Southern US, and, Appalachian) pretty.

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  • “He's purdy, for sure, but he looks a lot like a guest star antagonist on a Star Trek episode, maybe the High Vizier Poobah of a remote outpost that's hiding a dark secret.”

  • “Another clean-up #Minecraft project from the Bank Holiday, this makes an amethyst geode a lot easier to AFK at and mine. Also it's purdy.”

Origin: Corruption of pretty, representing the pronunciation of this word in the southern United States. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “Priyam Srivastava, Xin Jin, Junyu Liu, Gurudev Dutt, Tom Purdy, Kang Kim, Kaushik P. Seshadreesan Variational Joint Magnetometry and Gradiometry on Dipolar Spin Chains https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03906”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “He's purdy, for sure, but he looks a lot like a guest star antagonist on a Star Trek episode, maybe the High Vizier Poobah of a remote outpost that's hiding a dark secret.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Youth San Francisco 49ers #13 Brock Purdy New Red With Patch Cool Base Stitched Baseball Jersey #SanFrancisco49ers #NFLJersey #BrockPurdy #CoolBaseJersey”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Another clean-up #Minecraft project from the Bank Holiday, this makes an amethyst geode a lot easier to AFK at and mine. Also it's purdy.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Quarterbacks as bands: • Jalen Hurts - Rage Against the Machine • Patrick Mahomes - Coldplay • Joe Burrow - Flock of Seagulls • Matthew Stafford - Foo Fighters • Bo Nix - Geese • Caleb Williams - My Chemical Romance cover band • Brock Purdy - Jack Johnson”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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