单词 | poetling |
释义 | poetlingn. A young or budding poet; (also) an inferior or minor poet, a poetaster. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > young or budding poet poetling1730 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > minor poet or poetaster rhymera1500 versifier1531 rhythmer1577 rhymester1593 poetizer1599 jingler1600 penny poet1600 poetaster1601 verser?1611 versemonger1634 poetitoa1637 foot poet1641 verseman1652 sonneteer1667 tinkler1689 verse-wright1729 rhymist1763 bardling1813 coupleteer1818 verse-smith1820 poetling1830 versicler1860 bardlet1867 poeticule1872 poetast1892 1730 M. Concanen Speculatist 39 What Farquhar..says, with regard to Conversation, is a fine Reproof to such Poetlings. 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. 117 One of those poetlings in bud which never ripen. 1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton in Select. from Corr. M. Napier (1877) 83 What is the meaning of this Bible mania among the poetlings? 1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. xiv. 240 All classes, from popes and princes down to poetlings and pedants. 1909 Daily Chron. 26 Aug. 4/7 A reviewer who in his salad days fancied himself as a poetling (there were ‘minor poets’ in those days) contributed a sonnet. 1936 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Compl. Poems (1994) II. 1308 Let poetlings moan About primroses and skylarks and the Lord knows what. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1730 |
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