ETYMOLOGY
from poet + sucker (a greenhorn, a simpleton)
EXAMPLE
“…But gi’ me the man can start up a Justice of Wit out of six-shillings beer, and give the law to all the poets and poet-suckers i’ town. Because they are the players’ gossips? ‘Slid, other men have wives as fine as the players’, and as well dressed. Come hither, Win. …”
From: Bartholmew Fayre, A Comedie
By Ben Jonson, 1631
Lexicophilia 