Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A writer of insignificant, meretricious, or shoddy poetry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A petty poet: a feeble rimester, or a writer of indifferent verses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
unskilled poet .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Norwegians still speak of him as himmelstraevende sublim ( "sublime in his heavenly aspiration"); the Danes will have it that he was an hysterical poetaster.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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I'm also pleased to see that they didn't include a poem by that poetaster Barack Obama, given that Moi, too, am running for President.
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These two volumes belonged to clergyman and poetaster John Lea Simcox, who died in July 1840 at the age of 26; they were taken as a memorial by a friend, Laura Price, from Birmingham. eBay
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The Norwegians still speak of him as himmelstraevende sublim ( "sublime in his heavenly aspiration"); the Danes will have it that he was an hysterical poetaster.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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I'm also pleased to see that they didn't include a poem by that poetaster Barack Obama, given that Moi, too, am running for President.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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These two volumes belonged to clergyman and poetaster John Lea Simcox, who died in July 1840 at the age of 26; they were taken as a memorial by a friend, Laura Price, from Birmingham. eBay
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Sir Lewis Morris was a voluminous poetaster with a common mind.
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A tweedy poetaster who spent his time spinning out parables and Japanese koans…or a bland Jesus who simply told people to look at lilies in the fields — such a Jesus would threaten no one, just as the university professors who create him the Jesus Seminar and their ilk threaten no one.
Archive 2007-09-09 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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A tweedy poetaster who spent his time spinning out parables and Japanese koans…or a bland Jesus who simply told people to look at lilies in the fields — such a Jesus would threaten no one, just as the university professors who create him the Jesus Seminar and their ilk threaten no one.
Jesus and Mohammad, Version 2.0 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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Jovianus Pontanus makes an old fool rhyme, and turn poetaster to please his mistress.
vanishedone commented on the word poetaster
Since a poe might be a now-dead writer, a port of embarkation or a ghost in the Legand of Zelda games, I should imagine this might be an unpopular job...
(Yes, I know ;-) — but it might have been.)
December 1, 2007
reesetee commented on the word poetaster
That's close to what I always think every time I see this word. Only I think "poet" rather than "Poe," despite the fact that there is no double T. Blecch.
December 2, 2007
BrokenEye commented on the word poetaster
Is there also such a thing as a prosaster?
July 11, 2015
qms commented on the word poetaster
I prayed to my muse and I asked her
A word for a prose poetaster.
She told me directly,
"To fail so abjectly
Is classed as a simple disaster."
July 12, 2015