Meaning of doggrel | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of doggerel.

alt-of, archaic, not-comparable

Examples

“Your wit burlesque may one step higher climb, And in his sphere may judge all doggrel rhyme: All proves, and moves, and loves, and honours too; All that appears high sense, and scarce is low.”

“I have not the vanity to think myself a poet; and I have a horror of seeing mere doggrel rhymes--such as the following-- "Mighty toil I've borne for years thirty, I have revived Persia by this Pursi."”

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