[f. L. anōnym-us (see ANONYMOUS), after L. homunculus a little man.] A petty anonymous writer.
a. 1869. C. Reade, in Swinburne, Ess. & Stud. (1875), 3. Anonymuncules who go scribbling about.
1883. Proctor, in Knowledge, 25 May, 313/2. Charles Reade is awfully hard on the criticasters and anonymuncules of the Press.
1928. L. S. Lewis, Lett., in Central Somerset Gaz., 20 April, 6/3. Anonymuncules are constitutionally thin-skinned.
