Crossword clues for doggerel
doggerel
- Valentine inscription, maybe
- Base lines?
- High-class poetry it isn't
- Almost any poem that starts "Roses are red ..."
- A comic verse of irregular measure
- Comic verse
- Trivial verse
- Poetaster's product
- Verse than which there is no worse
- Verse that's not the cat's meow
- Verse lacking artistry
- William McGonagall's kind of poetry?
- Sea area next to the Spanish lines
- North Sea region taken by the Spanish? Nonsense
- Bull gored leg badly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Doggerel \Dog"ger*el\, n. 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.
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 (n.) + pejorative suffix -rel and applied to bad poetry perhaps with a suggestion of puppyish clumsiness, or being fit only for dogs. Attested as a surname from mid-13c., but the sense is not evident.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context poetry English) Of a crude or irregular construction. (Originally applied to humorous verse, but now to verse lacking artistry or meaning.) 2 (context poetry English) a comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure n. A doggerel poem or verse.
WordNet
n. a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" [syn: doggerel verse, jingle]
Wikipedia
Doggerel is poetry that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect. The word is derived from the Middle English dogerel, probably a derivative of dog. In English it has been used as an adjective since the 14th century and a noun since at least 1630.
Appearing since ancient times in the literatures of many cultures, it is characteristic of nursery rhymes and children's song.
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.