Hypertext Webster Gateway: "doggerel"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
doggerel
n : a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly
doggerel that kept running through his mind" [syn: {doggerel
verse}, {jingle}]
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