Meaning of Doggerel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.
   countable, uncountable
2. Any writing of crude composition.
   broadly, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Taffy drew a long breath into his manly bosom, and kept it there as he read this characteristic French doggerel (for so he chose to call this touching little symphony in ère and ra).”

“As he marched he sang a bit of doggerel in a high and quavering voice: / "Sing a song 'a vic'try, / A pocketful 'a bullets, / Five an' twenty dead men / Baked in a—pie."”

“It is very rare to find good, personal analysis of events that does not degenerate into chest-beating, pettiness, pomposity, or political doggeral ^([sic]).”

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