Doggerel

Quick meaning: Doggerel is an adjective meaning (poetry) Of a crude or irregular construction.

Meaning

(poetry) Of a crude or irregular construction.

More Meanings

1. (poetry) A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.
2. (by extension) Any writing of crude composition.

Example Sentences

It is very rare to find good, personal analysis of events that does not degenerate into chest-beating, pettiness, pomposity, or political doggeral ^([sic]).

As he marched he sang a bit of doggerel in a high and quavering voice: / "Sing a song 'a vic'try, / A pocketful 'a bullets, / Five an' twenty dead men / Baked in a—pie."

Taffy drew a long breath into his manly bosom, and kept it there as he read this characteristic French doggerel (for so he chose to call this touching little symphony in ère and ra).

True Wit has ſeen its best days long ago, / It ne're look'd up, ſince we were dipt in Show: / When Senſe in Dogrel Rimes and Clouds was loſt, / And Dulneſs flouriſh'd at the Actors coſt.

Word Forms

• dogrel
• doggrel
• doggerels

Synonyms for doggerel

Depending on context, synonyms include jingle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jingle, doggrel, pooey, dog-cheap, dogwater, draggle-tail.

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