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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
poetaster
 
SYLLABICATION:po·et·as·ter
PRONUNCIATION:  pt-str
NOUN: A writer of insignificant, meretricious, or shoddy poetry.
ETYMOLOGY:New Latin potaster : Latin pota, poet; see poet + Latin -aster, pejorative suff.
 
 
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