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
Asimov the poetaster and John Ciardi the poet might seem like an odd couple.
From Time Magazine Archive
Humbert Wolfe, 55, actory-looking poetaster and Deputy Secretary of Britain's Ministry of Labor; in his sleep; after complaining previous day of a chest pain; in London.
From Time Magazine Archive
He remained a hip poetaster, a psychedelic pushcart salesman hawking Oedipal nightmares like Good Humors.
From Time Magazine Archive
A good young man with a pathetic career; but a poetaster merely.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
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