poetaster

May. 1st, 2006 07:08 am
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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.

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