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Poetaster

//pəʊɪtæstə(ɹ)// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An unskilled poet.

    "Where the personal feelings were not engaged, it was also an agreeable pastime to follow his destructive feats; see him annihilate a poetaster, or insinuate away the pretensions of a book-wright."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin poētaster. By surface analysis, poet + -aster.

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