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prosy, a.|ˈprəʊzɪ|
[f. prose n. + -y.]
1. Resembling, or having the character of, prose. Sometimes = prosaic 2, commonplace, matter-of-fact; but usually with emphasis rather on the tiresome effect than on the intrinsic quality: commonplace and tedious; dull and wearisome.
1814Jane Austen Let. 9 Sept. (1952) 402 The scene with Mrs. Mellish, I should condemn; it is prosy & nothing to the purpose. 1823Scott in Ballantyne's Novelist's Library V. p. lxxxvi, Perhaps, to be circumstantial and abundant in minute detail, and in one word, though an unauthorized one, to be somewhat prosy, is one mode of securing a certain necessary degree of credulity in hearing a ghost-story. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxi, During this prosy statement of the ghost's. Ibid. xxxi, This address..was of a very prosy character. 1838Mill Diss. & Disc., A. de Vigny (1859) I. 327 If prolix writing is vulgarly called prosy writing, a very true feeling of the distinction between verse and prose shows itself in the vulgarism. 1849Miss Mulock Ogilvies xxvii, Mrs. Pennythorne..went on talking to his friend in her own quiet, prosy way. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 351/2 To be preferred to the prosy monotony of judicial life.
2. Of persons: Given to talking or writing in a commonplace, dull, or tedious way; prosing.
1838Lytton Alice ii. ii, A sensible..though uncommonly prosy speaker. 1859Green Oxf. Stud. ii. xvi. (O.H.S.) 181 The parents are all benevolent, affable and prosy. |