prosy

Etymology

From prose + -y.

adj

  1. (of speech or writing) Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative.
  2. (of a person) Behaving in a dull way; boring, tedious.
    CHARMIAN. He makes you so terribly prosy and serious and learned and philosophical. It is worse than being religious, at our ages. 1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
    I cannot imagine his pupil regarding him as anything but a prosy old pedant, set over him by his father to keep him out of mischief. 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.19

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