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proser|ˈprəʊzə(r)|
[f. prose v. + -er1.]
1. A writer of prose; = prosaist 1.
1627Drayton Elegy H. Reynolds in Agincourt, etc. 206 And surely Nashe, though he a Proser were A branch of Lawrell yet deserues to beare. 1815L. Hunt Feast Poets, etc. 14 Such prosers as Johnson, and rhymers as Dryden. 1854Lowell Jrnl. in Italy Prose Wks. 1890 I. 125 Poets and prosers have alike compared her [Italy] to a beautiful woman.
2. One who proses; one who talks or writes in a prosy, dull, commonplace, or tiresome way.
1769St. James's Chron. 29–31 Aug. 4/2 Bore... My Father's Word for this intolerable Animal was a Proser. 1810Crabbe Borough v. 39 The proser who..has tales of three hours' length. 1886Dowden Shelley II. v. 210 He would find Gisborne a proser, and a sieve through which much learning had passed. |