poetaster

Borrowed from the New Latin poētaster. Equivalent to poet +‎ -aster.

• Rhymes: -æstə(r)

poetaster (plural poetasters)

1. An unskilled poet.
   • 1853, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Mental Portraits; Or, Studies of Character, The Reviewer: Lord Jeffrey, page 219:

     Where the personal feelings were not engaged, it was also an agreeable pastime to follow his destructive feats; see him annihilate a poetaster, or insinuate away the pretensions of a book-wright.

• criticaster
• mathematicaster
• philosophaster
• politicaster

• operettas, taste pore

From poēt(a) (“poet”) +‎ -aster (“expressing incomplete resemblance”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po.eːˈtas.ter/, [pɔ.eːˈtas.tɛr]

poētaster m (genitive poētastrī); second declension

1. (New Latin) poetaster

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

• poetaster in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016