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

Lord King himself could scarce desire   To see a spiritual Peer Fall much more dead, in the dirt and mire,   Than did this Pamphleteer.

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

Whether he tript or shyed thereat,   Doth not so clear appear: But down he came, as his sermons flat—  This Reverend Pamphleteer!

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

Also, as we said, the Pamphleteer draws pen, on this side and that: zealous fists beat the Pulpit-drum.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

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