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- humorouspluralplural onlyPoor people.
My sister Cathy had a character simply known as the Rich Girl who would emerge from the fireplace and call us names, like Dirty Poorsies.
1991, Nora Dunn, Nobody’s Rib: Pat Stevens, Liz Sweeney, Babette, and Some Other Women You Know, HarperPerennial, →ISBN, page 1744 more examples
One male friend said, “Marion likes to compare poorsies,” but when I talked to her she was nonrevealing about her background to the point of being both petty and hostile.
1975, Myra MacPherson, The Power Lovers: An Intimate Look at Politics and Marriage, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 37Mona-Lisa: [shrieks] What? Excuse me. You’re broke? / Tom: Uh, yeah, super broke. Are you upset about that? / Mona-Lisa: Mm, yeah, ’cause I don't eff with poorsies.
2013 April 25, Joe Mande, Alan Yang, “Swing Vote”, in Parks and Recreation, season 5, episode 21“Poorsies need never be seen in the daytime. They are for the night.” It was a common reaction of the rich upon seeing the poor in the light of day.
2020, Russell Nohelty, Worst Thing in the Universe, Wannabe Press, →ISBNRecently, he purchased a vacation home in Hawaii to get away from the “negativity” he’s surrounded by at UCSB, brought on by all the “annoying poorsies that keep nagging me,” he said.
2022 January 27, Sam Franzini, “$580k Not Enough: Generous Students Start GoFundMe for Needy Yang”, in Daily Nexus
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poorsies. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poorsies
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