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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