Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a prosing manner; prosily.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Prosily.
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- adverb
prosily
Etymologies
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prosing + -ly
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Examples
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'Papa,' she said, all mystery and whisper, as she shut down the tea-pot lid, 'is sitting prosingly breaking his new laid egg in the back parlour over the City article exactly like the Woodpecker Tapping and need never know that you are here, and our little friend you are well aware may be fully trusted when she comes down from cutting out on the large table overhead.'
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841
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‘Papa,’ she said, all mystery and whisper, as she shut down the tea – pot lid, ‘is sitting prosingly breaking his new laid egg in the back parlour over the City article exactly like the Woodpecker
Little Dorrit 2007
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