poetaster
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of poetaster
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin or New Latin; see poet, -aster 1
Example Sentences
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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
His pleasure is the sailor's hobby, gardening, and his hero is a fiery Scot, James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, one of the most colorful fighters, and a vigorous poetaster, of the 17th Century.
From Time Magazine Archive
A calculated affront to poetry which causes the teeth of serious poets to gnash is a recent volume of doggerel, Family Reunion, by that whimsical poetaster: 1.
From Time Magazine Archive
With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
King Ludwig, himself at least a poetaster, hit upon a felicitous comparison, oft since reiterated, when he designated Overbeck the St. John and Cornelius the St. Paul in pictorial art.
From Overbeck by Atkinson, J. Beavington
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