doggerel
A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measureA comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.
» It's just doggerel, not fine poetry.
Это просто вирши, а не высокая поэзия. — odexed
AlanF_US · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.
Knittelvers
a comic verse of irregular measure
(broadly, countable, uncountable)Any writing of crude composition.
Examples
1 sentencesIt's just doggerel, not fine poetry.
ruЭто просто вирши, а не высокая поэзия. — odexed
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Probably from dog + -rel (“pejorative suffix”), akin to Dog Latin, late 14th c.Probably from dog + -rel (“pejorative suffix”), akin to Dog Latin, late 14th c.
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Forms
plural: doggerelsSynonyms
2 synonyms- a comic verse of irregular measure:doggerel versejingle
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.