poetaster
noun/pəʊɪtæstə(ɹ)/UK
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin poētaster. By surface analysis, poet + -aster.
- learned borrowing from poētaster
Definitions
An unskilled poet.
- Where the personal feelings were not engaged, it was also an agreeable pastime to follow his destructive feats; see him annihilate a poetaster, or insinuate away the pretensions of a book-wright.
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