prosing

prose +‎ -ing

prosing (not comparable)

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

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.

• porings, prosign, ropings, sporing, sproing