What is "prosy"

Usage examples of "prosy".

The boys call him Old Prosy, which is odiously ungrateful of them, butwell, you see?

Buxted a stiff apology for this incivility he cordially agreed with Felix that the fellow was an encroaching windsucker, a prosy bore, and, probably, a slow-top into the bargain.

Peter Navenby to be his guests at the Opera one evening, mentally holding his sister Louisa and her prosy son in reserve, in case Augusta should spurn his invitation.

Commercial England is now the possessor of this bower of sweet fancies,--this little corner of the world haunted by a thousand poetic memories,--and in these prosy days but few pilgrimages are made to a shrine that was once the glory of a glorious age.

Then, when the mist would lift and the sea stand out prosy with the smoke of steamers, he would sigh and descend to the town, where he loved to thread the narrow olden lanes up and down hill, and study the crazy tottering gables and oddpillared doorways which had sheltered so many generations of sturdy sea-folk.

Mama would tell you that I am becoming prim and prosy, in fact, like my Uncle Brumby!

And when your cousin has left us, we shall have no one but that prosy parson to keep our conversation alive!

I had studied law an entire week, and then given it up because it was so prosy and tiresome.

I think you have read him right, sir, and that he is a prosy fellow who by accident has slipped into roguery and will return gladly to his natural rut.

GILL: But, father, dear, the last part seems to me All prose--as prosy as can be-- MYSELF: Ha, prosy, miss!

I had been nodding for some time, not in approbation of what he said, but in heaviness of slumber, for I had never before heard him so prosy since I first overtook him on the Colchester road.

Not that she has long prosy talks about it, but little words that she lets drop now and then show where her thoughts are, and where she would like to be.

Or Felter:--your convinced and fervent Catholic has quotations of images and Latin hymns to his Madonna or one of his Catherines, by the dozen, to suit an enthusiastic fit of the worship of some fair woman, and elude the prosy in commending her.

His good wife waxes stouter and his children older and prosier and more useful, and he never fails to smile correctly with pride when the occasion calls for it.

I think he advanced the rather farfetched notion that his disappearing into strangling darkness with an unknown menacing male indicated unconscious fears of homosexuality, while I championed the prosier explanation that the whole horror of oil might merely stand for his resentment at having to work as a mechanic to earn a living.