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Doggerel logo #10101) Bad verse 2) Base lines 3) Burlesque verse 4) Comic poem 5) Comic verse 6) Crude 7) Crude poetry 8) Crude verse 9) Deficient verse 10) Doggerel verse 11) Exclusively Saxon word 12) Exclusively Anglo word 13) Genre of poetry 14) Jingle 15) Rhyme 16) Rude 17) Some verse 18) Trivial verse 19) Valentine inscription
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Doggerel

Doggerel logo #10101) Crambo
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Doggerel

Doggerel logo #21000 Doggerel is a derogatory term for verse considered of little literary value. The word is likely derived from dog, suggesting either ugliness, puppyish clumsiness, or unpalatability (as in food fit only for dogs). `Doggerel` is observed to have been used as an adjective since the fourteenth century and a noun since at least 1630. ==Variants== Dog.....
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doggerel

doggerel logo #21032bad verse, characterized by clichés, incomprehensibility, and an irregular metre.
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Doggerel

Doggerel logo #21002• (n.) A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry. • (a.) Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
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doggerel

doggerel logo #21003a 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]
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Doggerel

Doggerel logo #22429Bad verse, characterized by clich
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Doggerel

Doggerel logo #20972Dog'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.
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Doggerel

Doggerel logo #20972Dog'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.
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doggerel logo #20001 trivial poorly constructed verse 
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Doggerel

Doggerel logo #20166Poor 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.
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doggerel

doggerel logo #20400[n] - a comic verse of irregular measure
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doggerel

doggerel logo #20974doggerel verse noun a comic verse of irregular measure; `he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind`
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doggerel

doggerel logo #21221Poetical 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
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doggerel

doggerel logo #21199(of verse) · comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure. · rude; crude; poor.
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doggerel logo #23665 a comic verse of irregular measure
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doggerel logo #23665[Intelligent words] a comic verse of irregular measure
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