单词 | rhymer |
释义 | rhymer|ˈraɪmə(r)| [variant of rimer n.1: cf. rhyme. See also rhythmer.] One who makes rimes or verses; esp. an inferior poet, a mere versifier.
1639Fuller Holy War (1640) 206 A rhymer of that age (or in courtesie call him a Poet) made this Epitaph on them. 1712Steele Spect. No. 286 ⁋2 A Band of Rhymers and Romance-Writers. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. i. i, I back him at a Rebus, or a Charade against the best Rhymer in the Kingdom. 1785Burns Ep. to J. Lapraik 50, I am nae Poet, in a sense; But just a Rhymer like by chance. 1804Scott (title), Sir Tristrem; a Metrical Romance..by Thomas of Ercildoune, called the Rhymer. 1815L. Hunt Feast of Poets, etc. 14 In such prosers as Johnson, and rhymers as Dryden. 1878Dowden Stud. Lit. 36 He [Elliott] should be remembered as the Corn Law Rhymer. |

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