Purty Ring

Being the reason a marriage ends might look purty in a novel, but in real life it means you took someone else’s candy just because you wanted it. From Washington Post By the same process, English pretty often came to be realized as purty in regional speech. Most such words stabilized because of the influence of printing and the resultant standardized spelling, but purty. Definition of 'purty' purty in British English (ˈpɜːtɪ ) US informal adjective Word forms: -tier, -tiest purty, adj. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary "Purty" is a colloquial or dialectal variant of the word "pretty". It is often used in informal settings, especially in some regional dialects, to describe someone or something that is pleasing to the eye.

Examples She wore a purty dress to the party. The purty sunset lit up the sky. He’s got a purty good chance of winning the race.