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.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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