Doggrel

Quick meaning: Doggrel is an adjective meaning Archaic form of doggerel.

Meaning

Archaic form of doggerel.

Example Sentences

The uncouth doggrel, recited in a lilting sort of measure, the peculiar and various pleasures of a canter upon a pine rail.

Your wit burlesque may one step higher climb, And in his sphere may judge all doggrel rhyme: All proves, and moves, and loves, and honours too; All that appears high sense, and scarce is low.

To Latinise a pun, we must seek a pun in Latin, that will answer to it; as, to give an idea of the double endings in Hudibras, we must have recourse to a similar practice in the old monkish doggrel.

I have not the vanity to think myself a poet; and I have a horror of seeing mere doggrel rhymes--such as the following-- "Mighty toil I've borne for years thirty, I have revived Persia by this Pursi."

Word Forms

• doggrels

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include daggone, drivellous, raggety, grungey, gravelled, drudgey.

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