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poetizer

poetizer noun: an inferior poet.

Noun

poetizer (plural poetizers)

  1. An inferior poet.
    • It is true that authorlings and poetizers are apt to affect eccentricity. Real authors, and even real poets, (by real we mean good ones,) have generally a large portion of common sense to balance their genius […]1839, Eliza Leslie, The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies, page 263
    • Browning and Tennyson cannot be set aside as poetasters, but surely they are often only poetizers. They have got some wretched philosophy they want to express, and we feel them straining after it.A. B. Douglas, The Spirit Lamp (page 22)

Forms of poetizer

pluralpoetizers

Origin of poetizer

From poetize + -er.

Questions about poetizer

What does poetizer mean?
Poetizer means an inferior poet.
What part of speech is poetizer?
Poetizer is a noun.
What is the plural of poetizer?
The plural of poetizer is poetizers.

Words near poetizer in the dictionary

  1. poetist
  2. poetists
  3. poetization
  4. poetize
  5. poetized
  6. poetizer
  7. poetizers
  8. poetizes
  9. poetizing
  10. poetless
  11. poetlike

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