Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rimer; a maker of rimes, generally of an inferior order; a would-be poet; a poetaster.
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- noun One who
rimes
Etymologies
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Derived from rime + -ster.
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Examples
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'Son of Flecknoe,' and Dryden represented Shadwell as having inherited the stupidity of an obscure Irish rimester named Flecknoe, recently deceased.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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But Burns had no money; the brothers 'farm had not prospered, and Jean's father, a stern old Scotsman, would have nothing to say to Robert, who was in his opinion a bad man, and a wild, unstable, penniless rimester.
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