prosing

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English

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Etymology

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From prose +‎ -ing.

Adjective

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prosing (not comparable)

  1. Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.

Noun

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prosing (countable and uncountable, plural prosings)

  1. Tedious talk or writing. [from 18th c.]
    • 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
      He had great pretensions to wisdom […] but he was grievously given to metaphysics, and the prince found his prosings even more ponderous than those of the sage Eben Bonabben.
    • 1870, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine:
      I did not like to propose an adjournment thither too hastily, but patiently endured the prosings of my cicerone in the interior of the church.

Verb

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prosing

  1. present participle and gerund of prose

Anagrams

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