DOGGEREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doggerel mean? 

• DOGGEREL (noun)
  The noun DOGGEREL has 1 sense:

1. a comic verse of irregular measure

  Familiarity information: DOGGEREL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOGGEREL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A comic verse of irregular measure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

doggerel; doggerel verse; jingle

Context example:

he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind

Hypernyms ("doggerel" is a kind of...):

rhyme; verse (a piece of poetry)

 Context examples 

I want the man I love and honor to be something finer and higher than a perpetrator of jokes and doggerel.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They still piled the brushwood round the base of the tower, and gambolled hand in hand around the blaze, screaming out the doggerel lines which had long been the watchword of the Jacquerie.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)