Proosian
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɹuːʃ(ə)n/
Noun
Proosian (plural Proosians)
- Eye dialect spelling of Prussian.
- 1878, Gilbert and Sullivan, "For He Is an Englishman", H.M.S. Pinafore
- For he might have been a Roosian / A French, or Turk, or Proosian
- 1917, Scribner's Magazine
- In the breast of the treasonable Proosian ambition flamed to a white heat.
- 2010, H. de Vere Stacpoole, Sea Plunder, Wildside Press LLC →ISBN, page 108
- Listen to him chatterin' about outrages to noncombatants. What are ye yourself but an outrage, you fat Proosian!
- 1878, Gilbert and Sullivan, "For He Is an Englishman", H.M.S. Pinafore
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