poetaster - n., a writer of bad or shoddy poetry.
I thought this was a common word, but when I used it in an epigram, a couple readers went "huh?" From poet + -aster, Latin pejorative suffix -- useable it on other professions. Pronounced to rhyme with disaster.
---L.
I thought this was a common word, but when I used it in an epigram, a couple readers went "huh?" From poet + -aster, Latin pejorative suffix -- useable it on other professions. Pronounced to rhyme with disaster.
---L.