versemakern.

Forms: Also verse-maker, verse maker.

Etymology: < verse n. + maker n. Compare Dutch verzenmaker, German versmacher, Danish versemager.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈversemaker.

One who makes or writes verses; a poet or versifier.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun]

versifierc1340

poeta1382

metrera1387

sayer?a1400

makerc1460

metrician?a1475

metrist?1545

singer1560

swannetc1560

songster1584

muse1596

Castalianist1607

metre-maker1611

versificator1611

swan1613

versemaker1647

verseman1652

Parnassian1658

bard1667

factist1676

poetic1687

minstrel1718

shaper1816

1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. (at cited word) a verse maker, or a Poët, ..een Poët.

1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) v.191 All other trades demand, verse-makers beg.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 150 A mere verse-maker, in whose numbers..there is no poetry.

1836 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) VI. 302 The versemaker gets the habit of weighing the meanings and qualities of words.

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 269 What we call poetry was to them real life, not as to the modern versemaker a masquerade of gods and heroes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	versemaker
释义	versemakern. Forms: Also verse-maker, verse maker. Etymology: < verse n. + maker n. Compare Dutch verzenmaker, German versmacher, Danish versemager.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈversemaker. One who makes or writes verses; a poet or versifier. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] versifierc1340 poeta1382 metrera1387 sayer?a1400 makerc1460 metrician?a1475 metrist?1545 singer1560 swannetc1560 songster1584 muse1596 Castalianist1607 metre-maker1611 versificator1611 swan1613 versemaker1647 verseman1652 Parnassian1658 bard1667 factist1676 poetic1687 minstrel1718 shaper1816 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. (at cited word) a verse maker, or a Poët, ..een Poët. 1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) v.191 All other trades demand, verse-makers beg. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 150 A mere verse-maker, in whose numbers..there is no poetry. 1836 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) VI. 302 The versemaker gets the habit of weighing the meanings and qualities of words. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 269 What we call poetry was to them real life, not as to the modern versemaker a masquerade of gods and heroes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1647
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