Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A petty anonymous writer.

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  • noun obsolete an insignificant anonymous writer.

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Examples

  • Who, after all, that I should write of him, is this scribbling anonymuncule in grand old Massachusetts who scrawls and screams so glibly about what he cannot understand?

    Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877

  • * There is a little unlicked anonymuncule going scribbling about, whose creed seems to be that a little camel, to be known, must be examined and compared with other quadrupeds, but that the great arts can be judged out of the depths of a penny-a-liner's inner consciousness, and to be rated and ranked need not be compared

    Love Me Little, Love Me Long Charles Reade 1849

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  • An insignificant anonymous writer.

    May 11, 2008

  • Alternatively: the unchristened brother of one of your parents. Compare 'anonymant'.

    May 11, 2008

  • JM aspires to become an anonymuncule - please let everyone know.

    December 10, 2010