grammared

1. 1
   adjective

   Having grammar of a stated kind, usually joined to a word that describes it, as in bad-grammared.

   The forum filled up with angry, poorly grammared posts about the referee.

   His well-grammared prose hid how little he actually had to say.

   Note

   It is built like big-hearted or long-legged, a noun plus -ed, so it needs a describing word in front. The 1890s used it to mock: Massachusetts Reformatory's Our Paper (1894) calls an American companion bad-grammared, and Out West magazine (1895) jeers at a wild-grammared Los Angeles monthly. The compound takes a hyphen, except after an -ly adverb, as in poorly grammared.

2. 2
   verbobsolete

   Past tense and past participle of grammar. Obsolete.

   Note

   The verb behind this form is obsolete: to grammar meant to talk or write by the rules of grammar, and it took no object, so a speaker grammared but never grammared a sentence. In modern prose the same spelling is far more likely to be read as the bad-grammared adjective.

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