dime novelist
dime novelist noun: one who writes dime novels.
Noun
dime novelist (plural dime novelists)
- One who writes dime novels.
- Innumerable anecdotes are related of his prowess, and the stories of his hairbreath^([sic]) escapes and dangerous adventures while hunting and trapping—stories which have formed the warp and woof of the exaggerations of the dime novelists—would fill a volume even larger than this.1873, John Frost, “William Cody.—‘Buffalo Bill.’—His Life and Adventures.”, in Frost’s Pictorial History of Indian Wars and Captivities, from the Earliest Record of American History to the Present...
- She’d heard stories of western gunfighters, heroic figures who might gun down three men before they fired a single shot. She assumed these to be the fevered imaginings of dime novelists.2016, Derek Catron, chapter 7, in Trail Angel: A Frontier Epic of Love & Redemption, Waterville, Me.: Five Star, Gale, →ISBN, page 38
Forms of dime novelist
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Questions about dime novelist
- What does dime novelist mean?
- Dime novelist means one who writes dime novels.
- What part of speech is dime novelist?
- Dime novelist is a noun.
- What is the plural of dime novelist?
- The plural of dime novelist is dime novelists.
Words near dime novelist in the dictionary
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