sonneteer
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Noun (1)
- a poet who writes sonnetsType of poet
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Son′net·eer′ noun
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!— Alexander Pope
Son′net·eer′ intransitive verb
To compose sonnets. James Russell Lowell
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54