pamphleteer
English
Etymology
From pamphlet + -eer
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˌpæmfləˈtɪɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Noun
pamphleteer (plural pamphleteers)
- a writer or publisher of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist
- 1713: Jonathan Swift, The Journal to Stella
- The Commons are very slow in bringing in their Bill to limit the press, and the pamphleteers make good use of their time; for there come out three or four every day.
- 1891: Oscar Wilde, Intentions
- but Charles Reade, an artist, a scholar, a man with a true sense of beauty, raging and roaring over the abuses of contemporary life like a common pamphleteer or a sensational journalist, is really a sight for the angels to weep over.
- 1713: Jonathan Swift, The Journal to Stella
Translations
a writer or publisher of pamphlets
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Verb
pamphleteer (third-person singular simple present pamphleteers, present participle pamphleteering, simple past and past participle pamphleteered)
- (intransitive) To publish and distribute pamphlets as a form of propaganda.