Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

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!

Pope.

Verb.

To compose sonnets.

Lowell.

Noun.

A composer of sonnets or small poems; a small poet; usually in contempt.