garreter
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of garreteer (“poor writer; literary hack”).
Example Sentences
- "Not that the existence of Grub street is to be doubted: it was, indeed, a grim actuality, and many a garreter realised by experience How unhappy's the fate To live by one's pate And to be forced to write hackney for bread."
- "[A]bout 40 were burglars, "dancers," "garreters," and other adepts with the skeleton keys."
Etymology
From garret + -er.