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Look up: Doggerel

  1. doggerel
    trivial poorly constructed verse 
    Found on http://www.graduateshotline.com/list.htm

  2. Doggerel
    Poor quality poetry. The Scottish poet William McGonagall is famous for his doggerel and enjoys the dubious distinction of being regarded as the world's worst poet.
    Found on http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of

  3. doggerel
    [n] - a comic verse of irregular measure
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Doggerel
    Dog'ger·el adjective [ Middle English dogerel .] Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes. « This may well be rhyme doggerel , quod he.» Chaucer.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/106

  5. Doggerel
    Dog'ger·el noun 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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/106

  6. doggerel
    doggerel verse noun a comic verse of irregular measure; `he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Doggerel
    • (n.) A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry. • (a.) Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. doggerel
    a low, or trivial, form of verse, loosely constructed and often irregular, but effective because of its simple mnemonic rhyme and loping metre. It ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/62

  9. doggerel
    bad verse, characterized by clichés, incomprehensibility, and an irregular metre.
    Found on http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_r

  10. doggerel
    Poetical verse written with little regard to rhythm or rhyme. Originally the term was applied to a genre of loose, irregular verses, and it is also used to refer to poetry that is badly written
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  11. Doggerel
    `Doggerel` is a derogatory term for verse considered of little literary value. The word probably derived from dog, suggesting either ugliness, or unpalatability (as in food fit only for dogs). Etymology: From 1277 (as a surname, 1249), the root word probably from dog, applied to bad poetry pe...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerel



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