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单词 rhymester
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rhymestern.

Brit. /ˈrʌɪmstə/, U.S. /ˈraɪmstər/
Forms: see rhyme n. and -ster suffix; also 1500s–1600s 1900s– rimster, 1700s rhimster, 1800s– rhymster.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rhyme n., rhyme v., -ster suffix.
Etymology: < either rhyme n. or rhyme v. + -ster suffix. Compare rhymer n.
A person who composes rhymes or verses, esp. verses of inferior quality; a rhymer.
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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
α.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 65 To snibb the Thrasonicall rimester with Angelical meeter.
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. ii. 4 Such wondrous rablements of Rim-sters new.
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 239 Another old Elderton and right baladin-rimester.
1640 Womens Sharpe Revenge 90 I speake of our mungrill Rimsters, that with an affectate over-weening conceite of themselves, doe imagine that they can cough Logicke.
1738 J. Bancks Misc. Wks. I. 192 It was the name of an Italian Rymester, who sung to his Harp twenty thousand Verses of his own Composition.
1819 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 47 118 Like our now-a-day rimesters.
1941 P. Grainger Let. 27 Sept. in All-round Man (1994) 180 I love yr taste in book-art (Hardy, Chaucer, Masefield, & that rimster in Dorset or Somerset stead-speech).
1997 Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) (Nexis) 29 Mar. 32 A singer who reigns and will never resign as our merriest rimester.
β. 1628 W. Lathum in J. L. Vives tr. Virgil Eclogues iii. 49 Some base infamous Rhymester, such as Maevius, or Bavius; or the like.1684 T. Otway Atheist Prol. sig. A4 Rhymesters get Wit, e'er they pretend to shew it, Nor think a Game at Cramboe makes a Poet.1719 J. Dennis Orig. Lett. (1721) I. 91 But as Poets are not capable, so neither are they impartial Judges. I speak of those who are only Rhimesters.1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 141 He is a Popish rhymester, bred up with a contempt of the Sacred Writings.1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 269 Specimens of all the poets and rhymsters from that time to the present.1832 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter xxii, in Poems (new ed.) 45 Love, whose early rage Made me a rhymster in my youth.1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. ii. i. 72 In youth, a rhymester and a student, he is said to have translated Ovid into Spanish verse.1943 M. Samuel tr. S. Asch Apostle ii. ii. 239 The wretched, limping rhymester whom they call Homer?1987 Writer's Digest May 10/1 The second common failing even of rhymesters who have an ear for meter is that it becomes mechanical.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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