Thesaurus: doggerel
Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
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Definitions
- a. Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
- n. A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.
- n. a comic verse of irregular measure
- 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.
- Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. Chaucer.
- n:100 n. a comic verse of irregular measure