DOGGEREL

Doggerel

Doggerel is a derogatory term for verse considered of little literary value. The word probably derived from dog, suggesting either ugliness, puppyish clumsiness, or unpalatability . "Doggerel" is attested to have been used as an adjective since the fourteenth century and a noun since at least 1630.

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doggerel

Noun

  1. A doggerel poem or verse.

Adjective

  1. Of a crude or irregular construction. (Originally applied to humorous verse, but now to verse lacking artistry or meaning.)
  2. a comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure


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