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Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.

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  1. a. Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
  2. n. A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.
  3. n. a comic verse of irregular measure
  4. Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes. This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. Chaucer. 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.
  5. Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. Chaucer.
  6. n:100 n. a comic verse of irregular measure