Meaning of DOGGEREL
| Pronunciation: | | 'dogurul
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| | Definition: | | [n] a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" |
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| | Synonyms: | | doggerel verse, jingle |
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| | See Also: | | rhyme, verse | |
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| | Definition: | |  Doggerel
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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