poetling

Noun

poetling (plural poetlings)

1. A young, immature, inexperienced, petty, or insignificant poet.
   • Mr. Knowles goes farthest astray, however, in making selections from contemporary poetlings, to whom he allots oue third of his volume.1898, William Roscoe Thayer, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, William Richards Castle, The Harvard graduates' magazine - Volume 6 - Page 446
   • The poetlings around him were timid, crude, experimental, but Sackville writes like a young and inexperienced master perhaps, yet always like a master.1907, Edmund Gosse, A short history of modern English literature - Page 78