What is "apostrophising"

Usage examples of "apostrophising".

Never mind what he heard, I stopped apostrophising and convinced him that I was not a man to allow contempt of Court on the part of a horse.

All the while he talked loudly and with much gesticulation, apostrophising himself, scolding himself, uttering little cries of triumph or selfencouragement.

Cruncher, apostrophising himself in his usual way, "you see that there Cly that day, and you see with your own eyes that he was a young 'un and a straight made 'un.