8 September 2014

poetaster

[poh-it-as-ter]

noun

1. an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.

Origin

Medieval Latin
1590-1600; < Medieval Latin or Neo-Latin; see poet, -aster1

Related forms
poetastering, poetastery, poetastry, poetasterism, noun
poetastric, poetastrical, adjective

Synonyms
rhymester.
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Examples from the web for poetaster
Nor are such creatures merely the province of the past and the poetaster.
Here the old-fashioned term poetaster may apply, if only obliquely.

Today’s aphorism

I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can’t see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you’ll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people’s lives.

― David Malouf

On this day

8 September – International Day of Literacy.

8 September 1504 – Michelangelo unveils his iconic sculpture, ‘David‘.

8 September 1930 – Richard Drew invents ‘scotch’ tape, the world’s first transparent, adhesive tape … otherwise known as ‘sticky tape’.

8 September 1966 – Star Trek premiers on NBC TV in the U.S.

8 September 2006 – death of Peter Brock, Australian car racing legend. Born 26 February 1945.