About The Word Doggerel
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Doggerel
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Doggerel: amphigory | barbaric | barbarous | burlesque | cacophonous | caricatural | clumsy | coarse | crambo | crambo clink | crude | Doric | dysphemistic | farcical | graceless | gross | halting meters | harsh | Hudibrastic verse | improper | impure | in bad taste | inconcinnate | inconcinnous | incorrect | indecorous | inelegant | infelicitous | lame verses | limping meters | low | macaronic | macaronic verse | macaronics | nonsense verse | outlandish | parodic | rude | satiric | tasteless | uncourtly | uncouth | undignified | uneuphonious | unfelicitous | ungraceful | unpolished | unrefined | unseemly | vulgar 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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