sonneteer

noun, verb — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From sonnet + -eer, replacing earlier sonnetier from Italian sonettiere, from sonetto.

Derogatory, Sometimes A writer of sonnets or small poems.

Some starved hackney sonneteer.1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:

verb

Etymology From sonnet + -eer, replacing earlier sonnetier from Italian sonettiere, from sonetto.

To compose sonnets.

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