doggerel
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doggerel
- /ˈdɒɡəɹəl/ UK
Where it comes from
Probably from dog + -rel (“pejorative suffix”), akin to Dog Latin, late 14th c.
adjective dogrel · doggrel
- Of a crude or irregular construction. True Wit has ſeen its best days long ago, / It ne're look'd up, ſince we were dipt in Show: / When Senſe in Dogrel Rimes and Clouds was loſt, / And Dulneſs flouriſh'd at the Actors coſt.
noun doggerels · dogrel · doggrel
- A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure. 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).
- Any writing of crude composition. 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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adj of a crude or irregular construction
| Italiano | versaiolo |
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noun comic or humorous verse
| 中文 | 打油詩 /打油诗 dǎyóushī |
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| Français | vers de mirliton |
| Deutsch | Knittelvers |
| Italiano | rimeria |
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