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poetling en · NOUN

Etymology

From poet + -ling.

Meanings

1. A young, immature, inexperienced, petty, or insignificant poet.
   • Mr. Knowles goes farthest astray, however, in making selections from contemporary poetlings, to whom he allots oue third of his volume. 1898, William Roscoe Thayer, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, William Richards Castle, The Harvard graduates' magazine - Volume 6 - Page 446:
   • Poetlings - a new word to you? It was for me until written down on paper! I can't even brag about inventing it, for it just appeared. The word seems "natural' - created as a docent juggled two fertile thoughts converging, like children in her groups [...] 2007, Douglas C. Vest, Churchianity Lite - Page 33:
   • "No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year," Whitman wrote in "Eighteen Sixty-One," Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano, But as a strong man erect, clothed in blue clothes, [...] 1998, Ken Emerson, Doo-Dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture - Page 269:
   • The poetlings around him were timid, crude, experimental, but Sackville writes like a young and inexperienced master perhaps, yet always like a master. 1907, Edmund Gosse, A short history of modern English literature - Page 78:

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