versemongern.
/ˈvəːsmʌŋɡə/ A versifier, esp. one who writes poor or indifferent verse; a poetaster.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > minor poet or poetaster
rhymera1500
versifier1531
rhythmer1577
rhymester1593
poetizer1599
jingler1600
penny poet1600
poetaster1601
verser?1611
versemonger1634
poetitoa1637
foot poet1641
verseman1652
sonneteer1667
tinkler1689
verse-wright1729
rhymist1763
bardling1813
coupleteer1818
verse-smith1820
poetling1830
versicler1860
bardlet1867
poeticule1872
poetast1892
1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 173 Which of those verse-mongers ever durst write a ballad without imploring of some deity?
1768 G. Baretti Acct. Manners & Customs Italy I. 254 Some few verse-mongers of Rome.
1866 J. S. Blackie Homer & Iliad I. 120 A set of inferior versemongers.
1902 W. L. Mathieson Polit. & Relig. Scotl. I. x. 338 His virtues..were cordially recognised even by the scurrilous verse~mongers of the day.
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ˈversemongering n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > bad poem or doggerel poem > [noun] > writing of bad verse
versemongery1836
poetastering1845
worsification1849
versemongering1875
1875 J. R. Lowell Spenser in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 268 There is little to distinguish it from the contemporary verse-mongering south of the Tweed.
ˈversemongery n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > bad poem or doggerel poem > [noun] > writing of bad verse
versemongery1836
poetastering1845
worsification1849
versemongering1875
1836 Fraser's Mag. 14 488 Earning his bread by scribblement and verse-mongery.
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