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North Sea region taken by the Spanish? Nonsense
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doggerel
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Word definitions for doggerel in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doggerel \Dog"ger*el\, a. [OE. dogerel.] Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes. This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. -- Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c. (adj.); 1630s (n.), "Any rhyming verse in which the meter is forced into metronomic regularity by the stressing of normally unstressed syllables and in which rhyme is forced or banal" [Miller Williams, "Patterns of Poetry"]. probably from dog ...
Usage examples of doggerel.
There his unappreciated doggerels found fame, though misunderstood most of all by the affectionate child who copied them so proudly.
Methods of literary production beyond his own doggerels were a mystery to him.
Murray Lachlan Young, a scribbler of doggerel, disappeared now, a nine-minute wonder, not the real deal like me.
The abalone meat they pounded religiously to a verse of doggerel improvised by Saxon.
Again walking clockwise, he scattered a fine green sand over the line he had drawn and intoned an interminable number of doggerel verses in a singsong voice.
It did become too difficult to talk with Animalic fluency - because games cannot take up all one's time with Latin and mathematics and such things forced upon one's notice, but it was good enough for letters, and even bursts of doggerel song.
Bland began to compose an aimless bit of doggerel in which the words "splutter," "clutter," and "gutter" were employed to rhyme insultingly with that of Blutter.
The buffooneries cannot be separated from the sublimities without disrupting the piece, nor can its doggerel be turned into dignified verse.
Why should music and doggerel verse implement it for me, while the Green Adept needs special gestures and the White Adept needs mystic symbols?
He had never forgotten this little psycho-trap of mine, this doggerel verse which had almost driven him out of his mind.
Worse yet, the last sounds to assail our ears would be Guxx's doggerel verse.
He went on staring at it, standing very still while a gruesome snatch of doggerel he remembered hearing sung in the canteens of the Witwatersrand began trotting through his brain like an undertaker's hack.