balladist
[bal-uh-dist]
/ ˈbæl ə dɪst /
NOUN
poet
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poetaster
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NOUN
poetess
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NOUN
rhymer
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NOUN
rhymester
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NOUN
versifier
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Example Sentences
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The Bentley Balladist wrote years ago: "Excuse me, gents, but to poetic ponies, One ounce of praise is worth ten tons of corn."
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie