Crossword clues for sonneteer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sonneteer \Son`net*eer"\, n. A composer of sonnets, or small poems; a small poet; -- usually in contempt.
What woful stuff this madrigal would be
In some starved hackney sonneteer or me!
--Pope.
Sonneteer \Son`net*eer"\, v. i.
To compose sonnets.
--Lowell.
Wiktionary
n. (context sometimes derogatory English) A writer of sonnets or small poems. vb. To compose sonnets.
WordNet
n. a poet who writes sonnets
Usage examples of "sonneteer".
Perennius acre, and it was no vain boast even for the lousiest sonneteer that the Muse had ever farted onto.
On such a young lady he would make handsome settlements, and he would neglect no arrangement for her happiness: in return, he should receive family pleasures and leave behind him that copy of himself which seemed so urgently required of a man-- to the sonneteers of the sixteenth century.