Definition of Doggerel. Meaning of Doggerel. Synonyms of Doggerel

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Definition of Doggerel

Doggerel
Doggerel 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.
Doggerel
Doggerel 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.

Meaning of Doggerel from wikipedia

- Doggerel, or doggrel, is poetry that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect. Alternatively, it can mean...
- Doggerel is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band Pixies, released on September 30, 2022, by BMG Rights Management. It was produced...
- recorded the albums Head Carrier (2016), Beneath the Eyrie (2019) and Doggerel (2022). Lenchantin departed in 2024, replaced by Emma Richardson, formerly...
- to presenting the town with a statue of Shakespeare, Garrick composed a doggerel verse, lampooned in the London newspapers, naming the banks of the Avon...
- Africa in distinction to Dutch. The earliest Afrikaans texts were some doggerel verse from 1795 and a dialogue transcribed by a Dutch traveller in 1825...
- Hiram Bingham of Connecticut described the poem as "indecent, obscene doggerel." The poem by "unchained poet" was written in 1901, appearing in Sedalia...
- dismissed Master of Reality as "naïve, simplistic, repetitive, absolute doggerel", although the very same magazine would later place the album at number...
- decomposing whale made Woods a great deal of money, and Struthers famous. The doggerel poet William McGonagall wrote a notoriously bad poem, "The Famous Tay Whale"...
- of Tay near Dundee, Scotland, then the country's main whaling port. The doggerel verse is famous for lacking poetic quality. The Tay Whale came to public...
- was characterised by retention of the second-person singular, as in the doggerel "C****n't see what bist looking at? C****n't see as well as couldst, c****t...