Definitions for poetaster

poetaster po·et·as·ter

Spelling: [poh-it-as-ter]
IPA: /ˈpoʊ ɪtˌæs tər/

Poetaster is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 587 anagrams from letters in poetaster (aeeoprstt).

Definitions for poetaster

noun

  1. an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.

Origin of poetaster

1590-1600; Medieval Latin or New Latin; see poet, -aster1

Examples for poetaster

"Sir—sir—" spluttered the poetaster, crimson with anger and mortification.

Talbot had been that schoolfellow of William Henry already spoken of, who was a poetaster like himself.

Jonson figures personally in the ‘poetaster’ under the name of Horace.

Everybody of any education was either a poet or a poetaster.

Besides, I hope to taste some of the pie, and a pie-taster should not be a poetaster.

Dissipated rascal, and venal flatterer the poetaster had always been, but never traitor.

The Satiromastix” may be considered as a parody on “The poetaster.

Isaac Hawkins Browne was a poetaster of some little celebrity in the last century.

Had it not been for this 'poetaster,' Kenilworth might never have been written.

The Earl of Dorset, though but a poetaster himself, knew how to appreciate the higher genius of others.

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