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rhymester - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun One who composes light verse.
noun A minor or inferior poet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A rhymer ; a poetaster
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)
Etymologies
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rhyme + -ester
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Examples
'Why, thou school-boy rhymester , that is the only merit thou hast, and that not thine own!
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
I suppose you have in mind the Stratford rhymester .
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kids These Days 2009
The aggression also mirrors 1998's war of words between LL Cool J and Canibus, a computer science major and tech-centric rhymester who fabricated a feud to generate publicity, according to Journal of Hip-Hop editor Andrew Ryan , who teaches both computers and hip-hop culture at George Mason University, Virginia.
Rap Marketing Comes to Nerdcore 2005
French rhymester in his alley, and Silas in the valley of the shadow of death; perfect liberty, and a peremptory order to return in a week; — all illustrating one another.
Uncle Silas 2003
And certainly not a two-bit rhymester like Steve Jackson.
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003
"Young lust, you mean, rhymester ," laughed the second fighter.
Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989
The rhymester introduced all the characters; for instance:
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang
General rules they can lay down, as poets can the elements of their own trade; but these rules are at the command of the veriest daub or rhymester ; the manifold development of them to results almost divine remaining, even to those who achieve it in either walk, evasive and untraceable.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various
Remorse, were not, as to the eighteenth-century rhymester , merely Greek ladies draped in flowing raiment; to him they were realities, intensely focussed in himself.
Watts (1817-1904) William Loftus Hare
A poet is always a dead rhymester , -- a philosopher, a dead dreamer.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
vendingmachine commented on the word rhymester
n. One who composes light verse.
n. A minor or inferior poet.
n. A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry.
July 12, 2015