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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Poetaster

A very inferior poet. The suffix—aster is depreciative (compare “disaster”). At one time we had also “grammatic-aster,” “politic-aster,” “critic-aster,” and some others. (Italian, poetastro, a paltry poet.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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