poetaster
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- poetastering noun
- poetasterism noun
- poetastery noun
- poetastric adjective
- poetastrical adjective
- poetastry noun
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
With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because such images are her best accomplishment, Kay Boyle takes rank as a vivid poetaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alan Littlewood at 21 is a frail, girlish-featured, vain, romantic poetaster, with an acute inferiority complex and a touch of t.b.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there was another Frederic,—the Frederic of Rheinsberg, the fiddler and flute-player, the poetaster and metaphysician.
From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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