Definitions for poetasters

poetasters po·et·as·ter

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

Poetasters is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 765 anagrams from letters in poetasters (aeeoprsstt).

Definitions for poetasters

noun

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

Origin of poetasters

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

Examples for poetasters

"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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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