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poetling

noun

Etymology

From poet + -ling.

  1. derived from ποιητής
  2. derived from poēta
  3. derived from poete
  4. inherited from poete
  5. suffixed as poetling — “poet + ling”

Definitions

  1. A young, immature, inexperienced, petty, or insignificant poet.

    • Mr. Knowles goes farthest astray, however, in making selections from contemporary poetlings, to whom he allots oue third of his volume.
    • The poetlings around him were timid, crude, experimental, but Sackville writes like a young and inexperienced master perhaps, yet always like a master.
    • "No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year," Whitman wrote in "Eighteen Sixty-One," Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano, But as a strong man erect, clothed in blue clothes, [...]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA