单词 | writerling |
释义 | writerlingn. Now rare. A writer who produces inferior or insignificant works; a minor author. Later chiefly: spec. a young or aspiring writer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer scribblera1556 paper-blurrera1586 by-writer1587 feather-driver1593 squitter-book1594 paper-stainer1596 blur-paper1603 spoil-paper1610 penster1611 inkhorn matea1616 squitter-wit1615 ink-dabbler1616 squitter-pulpa1640 quill-driver1700 scribble-scrabble1707 authorling1752 writerling1802 inkhorn varlet1820 toe-writer1845 pen-driver1854 anonymuncule1859 ink-jerker1865 pen-pusher1875 pseudonymuncle1875 ink-spiller1881 ink-slinger1887 blotter- 1802 W. Taylor Let. 26 July in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 420 Under the name of professors, conservators, lecturers, &c., every writer and writerling of name has a salary from the government and instructs the people. 1820 Monthly Rev. Sept. 60 We are acquainted only with the great writers of old times, but we know the many writerlings of our own. 1895 Southern Mag. Mar. 599/2 That [with Stevenson died the mastery of the English style] seems to be all that the critics and the writerlings have been able to comprehend of..this incomparable and inimitable tale-teller. 1992 A. Plotnik Honk if you're Writer x. 97 Editors..decree which writerlings shall be raised from obscurity and which consigned to the hell of the unpublished. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1802 |
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