A writer or poet who practices gongorism by writing in an extremely ornate and complex style with elaborate language and metaphors.
From gongorism plus the suffix -ist, denoting a person who practices or follows a particular style or movement. Gongorists were primarily Spanish and Spanish-American writers of the 17th-18th centuries.
Gongorists were like the software developers of their time—they loved making their work complex and hard for others to understand, except on purpose and for aesthetic reasons!
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