Meanings
plural poetizers
- An inferior poet.
Browning and Tennyson cannot be set aside as poetasters, but surely they are often only poetizers. They have got some wretched philosophy they want to express, and we feel them straining after it.
A. B. Douglas, The Spirit Lamp (page 22)1 more example
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 […]
1839, Eliza Leslie, The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies, page 263
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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