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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[OE.

dogerel

Low in style, and irregular in measure;

as,

doggerel

rhymes

This may well be rhyme

doggerel

, quod he.

Chaucer.

Noun.

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.

Adj.

An epithet given to a kind of loose, irregular measure in burlesque poetry, like that of Hudibras; as doggerel verse or rhyme.

Noun.

A loose, irregular kind of poetry; used in burlesque.