单词 | criticule |
释义 | criticulen. An insignificant or mediocre critic. Cf. critickin n., criticling n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > [noun] > critic > petty or inferior criticaster1669 criticling1756 criticule1840 1840 London Mag. Feb. 27/1 Byron, who lived somewhere in the dark ages, and whom certain infitesimal [sic] criticules imagined a poet. 1889 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 48 97/1 The criticule whose callowness I have scrutinized. 1973 V. Nabokov Strong Opinions (1990) xx. 194 Neither they nor, of course, the common criticule discerned the structural knot of the story. 1998 R. Stacey Source/derivations 94 The inscriptions that give theory-hooked criticules something to chew on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1840 |
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