10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROSSIE»
Discover the use of
prossie in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prossie and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
In the Empire of Shadow: Worlds of Shadow #2
“Prossie, you'rein trouble. Ican'tget answers outofyou. General Hartand Under
Secretary Bascombe are both...well, they say they're furious, but they're relieved.
They can write off thewhole missionif they losecontact with you. They've already ...
Lawrence Watt-Evans, 2012
2
Out of This World: Worlds of Shadow #1
“If they'renot real, then screw 'em,” Amy said, grabbing the pen. “They're carrying
itmuchtoo far,and asfaras I'm concerned they can rot here. Where doI sign?” The
desk sergeant pointed. **** Prossie heard someone calling her name, or at any ...
Lawrence Watt-Evans, 2012
3
The Reign of the Brown Magician
She hadn't meant to tell Prossie anything. And Prossie hadn't meant to tell Carrie
as much as she had, either, but any time telepaths communicated directly there
would be leakage, there would be things that slipped out. A telepath couldn't ...
Lawrence Watt-Evans, 2004
4
Confessions of an Essex Girl: A Smart, Sexy and Scandalously ...
PRossIE: Twelve hundred euros. GARY: That's still not enough. PRossIE: Two
thousand euros. GARY: OK, that seems fair. But I want the money first. You see
the hilarious thing he did there? This is typical Essex wideboy humour. And then
he ...
5
A Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Nice and particular in dress, or in any work; a term of contempt generally
conjoined with body,as, a prossie body, Roxb.—Teut. prootech, fastosus,
superbus. PROT, s. A trick. V. PRA'rr. PROTEIR. L. protegere. Dunbar. PROTY,
Pao'rn', adj. l.
John Jamieson, John Johnstone, 1846
6
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
J. SEABROOK She's been hanging round the Cherry Tree—that's the pub where
all the old prosses go—and she's been going down there since she was thirteen (
1973). prossie /ÆprQsI, -zI/ noun Also prossy, prozzy. orig Austral = pross noun ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
7
Sexual Bullying: Gender Conflict and Pupil Culture in ...
PUPIL 2: Well, like you say it's like calling them a prossie or something, it gets
them mad, don't it? RESEARCHER: But calling them names to do with sex is a bit
strange to me. You said slag and prossie, which really mean 'you go with lots of ...
A week later, while waiting around the Manhattan Criminal Courts Building, I was
invited to join the pre-noon club of prostitution lawyers for "a few belts" at Happy's
Bar. A hardy half-dozen of these prossie lawyers handle almost all the regular ...
9
Shaw and Joyce: The Last Word in Stolentelling
He seems to have placed Beatrice in dialogic relationship to Micaela of Carmen,
Elizabeth of Tannhauser, and Prossie of Candida. But, like Shaw, who introduced
Prossie as a rival for Candida, Joyce left the foil for his Circe dangling, ...
Martha Fodaski Black, 1995
10
Hearst's International
"Prossie," he muttered, "you'd laugh at •ath — somebody else's." "I have," said
she, "twice. Poor Lamb!" She was looking with a sort of prankish istfulness toward
the Pullman coach into hose depths Henrietta's husband had llowed. "Poor dear!
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROSSIE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
prossie is used in the context of the following news items.
Trip of a lifetime for two Prossie teens
LUCKY: Eli Gunders takes on Manchester City players in a game of Fifa earlier this week. Eli won a Nissan competition to mingle with the football superstars. «Whitsunday Times, Jul 15»
Prossie fan day the 'biggest ever'
SUPERSTAR: Jack Kearns, Taine Browne and Ben Cornish with Johnathan Thurston in Proserpine's Main Street yesterday. «Whitsunday Times, Jul 15»
Eight wins for Prossie junior Brahmans teams
THE Proserpine Whitsunday Junior Rugby League Brahmans made it eight wins from 11 matches on Saturday. The under-10s were the big winners at the ... «Whitsunday Times, Apr 15»
"Guilty until proven innocent": the trial of LGBT asylum seekers …
In December 2013, Prossie N was flown from the UK to Uganda, a country which has one of the worst gay rights records in Africa. Its president, Yoweri Museveni ... «New Statesman, Mar 15»
Prossie's big barra becomes an internet hit
BIG BARRA: Tony Bygraves with a huge barramundi caught in Proserpine's Peter Faust Dam. The dam features prominently in a new online website. «Whitsunday Times, Feb 15»
Prossie boy is now pipeline boss
PROSSIE BOY: Mick McCormack, the CEO of APA Group and the man behind the nation's largest gas deal to date, was born and raised in Proserpine. «Whitsunday Times, Dec 14»
Prossie v Cannonvale in taekwondo stakes
TAEKWONDO STARS: Tyler Greenhill, Lil Kelly, Jesse Smylie, Tatum Drosd, Ryan McCormack, Kody Smylie and Darcy Milne at the Whitsunday Taekwondo Oh ... «Whitsunday Times, Nov 14»
Prossie student impresses
BRIGHT FUTURE: Isabelle Silberling will study a dual degree in law and commerce at Bond University. Photo by Sharon Rudinski. Contributed ... «Whitsunday Times, Sep 14»
Who killed Pastor Herbert Ssebunya?
On the fateful day on Wednesday August 20, Ssebunya left his home at Abayitababiri near Entebbe, with his wife Prossie Nakagimu in their Mercedes Benz ML ... «New Vision, Sep 14»
Prossie teenager inspired to run suicide awareness event
OUT OF THE SHADOWS: Whitsunday Neighbourhood Centre community development officer Tamara Noble, Stand for the Silent vice-president Liz DeVries, ... «Whitsunday Times, Sep 14»
