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[syn: doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Doggerel \Dog"ger*el\, a. [OE. dogerel.]
Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
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This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. -- Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Doggerel \Dog"ger*el\, n.
A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified
poetry.
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Doggerel like that of Hudibras. -- Addison.
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The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed
his reverence for the brave sufferers. --Macaulay.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
doggerel
n 1: a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some
silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" [syn:
doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle]