Poetizer

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An inferior poet.

    "It is true that authorlings and poetizers are apt to affect eccentricity. Real authors, and even real poets, (by real we mean good ones,) have generally a large portion of common sense to balance their genius […]"

  2. 2
    a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) wordnet

Example

More examples

"It is true that authorlings and poetizers are apt to affect eccentricity. Real authors, and even real poets, (by real we mean good ones,) have generally a large portion of common sense to balance their genius […]"

Etymology

From poetize + -er.

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