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English Dictionary: doggerel by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
doggerel
n
  1. a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"
    Synonym(s): doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle
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.
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