Proosian

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Proosian (plural Proosians)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of Prussian.
    • 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “For He Is an Englishman”, in H.M.S. Pinafore;  [], San Francisco: Bacon & Company,  [], →OCLC:
      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!

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