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Sonneteer

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

Sonneteer \Son`net*eer"\, v. i. To compose sonnets.
--Lowell.

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sonneteer

n. (context sometimes derogatory English) A writer of sonnets or small poems. vb. To compose sonnets.

WordNet
sonneteer

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.