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