prosy
adjUK /ˈpɹəʊzi/
Etymology From prose + -y.
1
Of speech or writing Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative.
2
Of a person Behaving in a dull way; boring, tedious.
- CHARMIAN. He makes you so terribly prosy and serious and learned and philosophical. It is worse than being religious, at our ages.1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra:
- "Well, well, we all get a bit prosy sometimes," said Lord John.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
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- I cannot imagine his pupil regarding him as anything but a prosy old pedant, set over him by his father to keep him out of mischief.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.19:
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