proser
Americannoun
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a person who talks or writes in prose.
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a person who talks or writes in a dull or tedious fashion.
Etymology
Origin of proser
Example Sentences
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The consequence was, I soon got the name of an intolerable proser, and should in a little while have been completely excommunicated had I not changed my plan of operations.
From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington
The purger, the proser, the bard— All quacks in a different style; Doctor Southey writes books by the yard.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
"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 Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob
I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now!
From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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