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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mania for writing poetry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mania for writing verses.
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- noun a
mania for writingpoetry , especiallydoggerel
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jmjarmstrong commented on the word metromania
JM is averse to gaining his metromanics licence
March 25, 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word metromania
(noun) - A species of insanity in which the patient evinces a rage for reciting poetry. From Greek metreon, metre, and mainomai, to be insane. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850
February 4, 2018