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garreteer|ˌgærɪˈtɪə(r)| Also (7 ? garretteir, ? garitier), 8–9 garretteer. [f. garret n.1 + -eer1.] One who lives in a garret; esp. an impecunious author or literary hack.
[1650,1653: Examples of these dates are prob. misprints; see gazetteer 1.] 1720Bentley Let. 31 Dec. Wks. 1836–8 III. 538 Let other scribblers and garreteers take some caution from his example. 1739P. Whitehead Manners 15 Down, down, ye hungry Garretteers, descend. 1824Blackw. Mag. XV. 325 If they be not garretteers, living out of the world, and never seeing a newspaper. 1887M. B. Betham-Edwards Next of Kin II. xviii. 248 The editorial ‘I am very sorry’—how many garreteers has it driven to suicide? attrib.1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 149 Sir Southey, now chang'd from his garretteer state, To write silly odes, and palaver the great. |