Lexicographical Neighbors of Prossie
Literary usage of Prossie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Applied to a projection in a haystack, during the act of rearing it, whence it
as, a prossie body, Roxb. This is nearly allied to the use of the term, ..."
2. The Bookman (1906)
"... Closser Hale won a success that is remembered by all American theatregoers as
the inimitable prossie, the typist in George Bernard Shaw's Candida. ..."
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