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Brosy vs Prosy - What's the difference?

brosy | prosy |

As adjectives the difference between brosy and prosy

is that brosy is (scotland) in the rural and farming circles, stout and strong; well-built; well fed with brose while prosy is unpoetic (of speech or writing); dull and unimaginative.

brosy

English

Alternative forms

* brosey

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (Scotland) In the rural and farming circles, stout and strong; well-built; well fed with brose.
  • Semi-liquid (like brose).
  • Containing brose.

    • References

    * brosey , American Encyclopedic Dictionary, by Robert Hunter, John Alfred Williams, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage, 1897.

    prosy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Unpoetic (of speech or writing); dull and unimaginative.
  • Behaving in a dull way (of a person); boring, tedious.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.19:
    • 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.

    Related terms

    * prose