Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A battle of the poets. The quotation refers to a stage quarrel between Ben Jonson and Marston, Dekker, and others at the end of the sixteenth century.
Examples
“The circumstances of the origin of this 'poetomachia' are far from clear, and those who have written on the topic, except of late, have not helped to make them clearer.”
“poetomachia' or war of the theatres as recent critics have named it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘poetomachia’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Words with two Os in them
theriomorphic, zoo, oberon, pool, tool, fool, cool, school, occlusion, operation, opioid, solenoid and 24 more...
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Goodies from Phrontistery.info
One of my favourite word-related sites is the Phrontistery, and occasionally I poke around that site to find interesting words I've never heard of before. This list includes my favourite words from...
ascoliasm, nebulaphobia, gynotikolobomasso..., poetomachia, turophile, growlery, mumpsimus, peccavi, obrumpent, nubivagant, orgiophant, scaevity and 2 more...
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Fighting Words
Words that end in -machy.
cynarctomachy, alectoromachy, logomachy, monomachy, iconomachy, sciamachy, tauromachy, naumachy, gigantomachy, theomachy, psychomachy, batrachomyomachy and 6 more...
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mutandis26 A contest or quarrel among poets. Sep 3, 2009