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Doggerel | |
noun | 1. Comic verse composed in irregular rhythm.
2. Verse or words that are badly written or expressed. |
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| "I couldn't find a birthday card I liked, so I wrote a funny bit of doggerel on a blank card." | "I found my high school notebooks and was so embarrassed by the doggerel I used to write." | "The idea started out as doggerel, but we worked on it until it became our best song." |
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| English, mid-17th century |
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| While anyone who is brave enough to share their poetry should be commended, many of us likely made a clumsy attempt at verse in our angsty teenage years. There's a word for such badly written poetry: "doggerel." This word can be traced back to the 1600s, but the etymology suggests it might be named after particular 13th-century men named "Doggerel" (assuming they were guilty of penning painful poetry). ... | |
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