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ˈpoetling
[See -ling.]
A young or budding poet; also, a petty or inferior poet, a poetaster.
1772Nugent tr. Hist. Fr. Gerund II. 117 One of those poetlings in bud which never ripen. 1830Lytton in Select. Corr. M. Napier (1879) 86 What is the meaning of this Bible mania among the poetlings? 1886Symonds Renaiss. It., Cath. React. (1898) VII. xiv. 240 All classes, from popes and princes down to poetlings and pedants. |