Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who composes light verse.
- noun A minor or inferior poet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry.
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- noun A
rhymer ; apoetaster
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- noun a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)
Etymologies
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Examples
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'Why, thou school-boy rhymester, that is the only merit thou hast, and that not thine own!
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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I suppose you have in mind the Stratford rhymester.
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The aggression also mirrors 1998's war of words between LL Cool J and Canibus, a computer science major and tech-centric rhymester who fabricated a feud to generate publicity, according to Journal of Hip-Hop editor Andrew Ryan , who teaches both computers and hip-hop culture at George Mason University, Virginia.
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French rhymester in his alley, and Silas in the valley of the shadow of death; perfect liberty, and a peremptory order to return in a week; — all illustrating one another.
Uncle Silas 2003
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And certainly not a two-bit rhymester like Steve Jackson.
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"Young lust, you mean, rhymester," laughed the second fighter.
Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989
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The rhymester introduced all the characters; for instance:
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang
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General rules they can lay down, as poets can the elements of their own trade; but these rules are at the command of the veriest daub or rhymester; the manifold development of them to results almost divine remaining, even to those who achieve it in either walk, evasive and untraceable.
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Remorse, were not, as to the eighteenth-century rhymester, merely Greek ladies draped in flowing raiment; to him they were realities, intensely focussed in himself.
Watts (1817-1904) William Loftus Hare
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A poet is always a dead rhymester, -- a philosopher, a dead dreamer.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
vendingmachine commented on the word rhymester
n. One who composes light verse.
n. A minor or inferior poet.
n. A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry.
July 12, 2015