doggerel
(of verse)
comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure.
rude; crude; poor.
doggerel verse.
Origin of doggerel
1- Also dog·grel [daw-gruhl, dog-ruhl]. /ˈdɔ grəl, ˈdɒg rəl/.
Words Nearby doggerel
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How to use doggerel in a sentence
In the words of the old doggerel: The rain it falls alike, On the just and unjust fella.
Some scornful commentator has called this doggerel; but I would that all doggerel were as interesting.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. HarperThe old words which Burns's songs superseded were wretched doggerel; not such were the ancient Greek heroic lays.
Homer and His Age | Andrew LangOn the left wall, as one faces the choir, is a curious doggerel inscription to one Busbie.
Milton's England | Lucia Ames MeadHe seems to have spent the greater part of his useless life in composing doggerel verses which he addressed to his sisters.
Court Beauties of Old Whitehall | W. R. H. Trowbridge
The Atlantic cable was a theme of inspiration for innumerable sermons and a prodigious quantity of doggerel.
Heroes of the Telegraph | J. Munro
British Dictionary definitions for doggerel
dogrel (ˈdɒɡrəl)
/ (ˈdɒɡərəl) /
comic verse, usually irregular in measure
(as modifier): a doggerel rhythm
nonsense; drivel
Origin of doggerel
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