Doggerel Definition

dôgər-əl, dŏgər-
noun
Trivial, awkward, often comic verse characterized by a monotonous rhythm.
Webster's New World
Any trivial or bad poetry.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • jingle
  • doggerel verse
adjective
Designating or of such verse.
Webster's New World

(poetry) Of a crude or irregular construction. (Originally applied to humorous verse, but now to verse lacking artistry or meaning.)

Wiktionary

(poetry) A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Doggerel

Noun

Singular:
doggerel
Plural:
doggerels

Origin of Doggerel

  • From Middle English poor, worthless from dogge dog dog

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Doggerel Sentence Examples

  • Thanks to his father's excellent advice, he gave up writing doggerel verse (much of which had been printed by his brother and sold on the streets) and turned to prose composition.

  • Vacarescu described the history of the Ottoman empire from the beginning to 1791, interpolating doggerel verses.

  • His knowledge of the Bible was such that he might have been called a living concordance; and on the margin of his copy of the Book of Martyrs are still legible the ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers, and his implacable enmity to the mystical Babylon.

  • The work by which he is known is the Fable of the Bees, published first in 1705 under the title of The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves Turn'd Honest (two hundred doggerel couplets).

  • They have told me since that I was singing some insane doggerel about " The Last Man Left Alive!

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Words Starting With

DDODOG

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LELREL

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