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单词 rhythmer
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rhythmern.

Brit. /ˈrɪðmə/, U.S. /ˈrɪðmər/
Forms: see rhythm n. and -er suffix1; also 1500s rithmour, 1500s rithmoure, 1500s rythmour, 1500s rythmoure.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Probably also partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: rhythm n., -er suffix1; rhymer n.
Etymology: < rhythm n. + -er suffix1; in early use in sense 1 probably simply a spelling variant of rhymer n.: compare rhythm n. II. and discussion at that entry. Compare slightly later rhythming n., and later rhythm v.With forms in -our , -oure compare -our suffix.
1. A person who writes rhymes; = rhymer n. Obsolete.
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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
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 1/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Yet the valiaunt capitayne..dyd sooner wyshe to be Homer his Thersites, then to be the Alexander of that doltish rythmour, which vndertooke, with his woodden verses to blase his famous and martiall exploytes.
1582 R. Stanyhurst in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 108 An Epitaph.., such as oure vnlearned Rythmours accustomablye make vpon thee death of euery Tom Tyler.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 227 The Songs of British Bards, or Rhythmers.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 21 Amongst all the foul mouthes.., one rayling Rythmer..bore away the bell.
1705 A. Symson Tripatriarchicon Pref. Providing, ordinary ballad-makers, Countrey Rhythmers, mercenary Epitaph-mongers..be wholy excluded the Number.
1778 T. Pennant Tour in Wales I. 11 The most skilful minstrel, rythmer, or bard, at the Eisteddfod.
1834 G. N. Wright Scenes in Ireland 175 It..was esteemed one of the strongest fortresses in the olden time: its character is preserved by the rhythmers of those days: ‘We have no fortress we call our own But Limerick, Galway, and stout Athlone.’
2. A person who uses rhythm in verse (esp. in the way specified by a modifying word). rare.
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1884 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 319/2 Bicknell..is the first English scholar who has translated a Persian ghazal..poetically, and..has proved himself..a ready rhythmer and rhymer.
1897 D. Pelton Greenwood (1899) I. 10 Born a rhythmer, amid sublimer scenes, the music of the spheres beats time against the raptured brain and poured sweet poesy from the willing lips, and thus I wrote.
?c1970 J. Lennon in A. Babiuk Beatles Gear (2001) 117 I'm a rhythmer, I don't know nothing about these things, I'm a rhythmer.
2000 B. Wormser & D. Cappella Teaching Art of Poetry i. 2 Rhythm is the motive feeling of the life force, the ‘green fuse’ as Dylan Thomas (a very great rhythmer) put it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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