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Doggerel

Doggerel Meaning & Definition
Doggerel Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Doggerel?

[n] a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Doggerel: doggerel verse | jingle

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See Also | rhyme | verse

Doggerel In Webster's Dictionary

\Dog"ger*el\, a. [OE. dogerel.] Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes. This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. -- Chaucer.
\Dog"ger*el\, n. A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry. Doggerel like that of Hudibras. -- Addison. The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers. --Macaulay.

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