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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: doggerel n : a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" [syn: {doggerel verse}, {jingle}]
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