proser

American  

[proh-zer] / ˌproʊ zər /

noun

1. a person who talks or writes in prose.

2. a person who talks or writes in a dull or tedious fashion.

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Etymology

Origin of proser

First recorded in 1620–30; prose + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Truth was, my outward eyes were closed,   Although I did not know it; Deep into dream-land I had dozed, And thus was happily transposed   From proser into poet.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

"I am, sir," he once boasted to an analytical, unimaginative proser who had insisted upon explaining some quaint passage in Marvell or Wither, "I am, sir, a matter-of-lie man."

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles

He is as little of a proser as possible; but he blurts out the finest wit and sense in the world.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William

I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now!

From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher

I am informed that, to-day, in Germany, the only two modern English dramatists who are listened to are Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw—the poet and the proser.

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell