pamphleteer

American  

[pam-fli-teer] / ˌpæm flɪˈtɪər /

noun

1. a writer or publisher of pamphlets, especially on controversial issues.

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verb (used without object)

1. to write and issue pamphlets.

pamphleteer British  

/ ˌpæmflɪˈtɪə /

noun

1. a person who writes or issues pamphlets, esp of a controversial nature

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verb

1. (intr) to write or issue pamphlets

Etymology

Origin of pamphleteer

First recorded in 1690–1700; pamphlet + -eer

Example Sentences

Some critics, he thinks, miss their target as badly as Pamphleteer Livesey.

From Time Magazine Archive

All praised his skilful jockeyship,   Loud rung the Tory cheer, While away, away, with spur and whip,   Went the Reverend Pamphleteer.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

Printed for J. Clifford in the Old Bailey, and sold at the Pamphleteer Shops.

From Trial of Mary Blandy by Roughead, William

Dissert. on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, in the Pamphleteer, vol. viii. p.

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.

You may talk of the jumps of Homer's gods,   When cantering o'er our sphere— I'd back for a bounce, 'gainst any odds,   This Reverend Pamphleteer.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael