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Doggerel

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a crude or irregular construction. not-comparable

    "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."

Noun
  1. 1
    A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure. countable, uncountable

    "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)."

  2. 2
    a comic verse of irregular measure wordnet
  3. 3
    Any writing of crude composition. broadly, countable, uncountable

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

Probably from dog + -rel (“pejorative suffix”), akin to Dog Latin, late 14th c.

Etymology 2

Probably from dog + -rel (“pejorative suffix”), akin to Dog Latin, late 14th c.

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