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Prosier vs Crosier - What's the difference?

prosier | crosier |

As an adjective prosier

is (prosy).

As a noun crosier is

a staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.

prosier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (prosy)

    • 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

    crosier

    English

    Alternative forms

    * crozier

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
  • (botany): A young fern frond, before it has unrolled; fiddlehead

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