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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://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. Doggerel
    `Doggerel` describes verse considered of little literary value. The word is derogatory, from Middle English. Doggerel might have any or all of the following failings: * trite, cliche, or overly sentimental * forced or imprecise rhymes * faulty metre * misordering of words to force correct metre Almost by definition examples of doggerel are not preserved, since if they have any redeeming value they are not considered doggerel. One example of do...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerel

  8. 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

  9. 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

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


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