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Witticaster. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Witticaster nonce-wd. [f. WIT sb. or WITTY a., after CRITICASTER.] A petty or inferior wit, a witling.

1   First in Latham’s Dict., 1872, where the following is quoted as from Milton on the authority of ‘Ord MS.’:—The mention of a nobleman seems quite sufficient to arouse the spleen of our witticaster. Hence in later Dicts.

2 1896.  Punch, 30 May, 255/2.        If, for example, one should call   A wit a witticaster, And if the critics—race sublime— Would make an onslaught on my rhyme, In sheer contempt they write that I ’m   The worst of poetasters; While I retort to trump their card, That I, as well befits a bard Reserve the right to disregard   All drivelling criticasters.

3 1902.  Ozark (AL) Tribune, 2 Dec., 3/2. The witticasters had long since cut out the pumpkin.

4 1905.  E. Sauter, Faithless Favorite, 217–8. A post-prandial witticaster of our own day could not be nastier at the orgies of a party of bankers.

5 1910.  St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 8/7. In not one [essay] does even the subject matter pertain to anything resembling the ideas which those old trusties of the witticaster indicate.

6 1913.  The Scroll, 533. In their efforts to shine, the cut glass and silver were only outdone by the witticasters who were present.

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