Doggerel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque nature.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of a crude or irregular construction. (Originally applied to humorous verse, but now to verse lacking artistry or meaning.)
  • adj. a comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure
  • n. A doggerel poem or verse.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Low in style, and irregular in measure.
  • n. A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • An epithet originally given to a kind of loose, irregular measure in burlesque poetry, like that of “Hudibras,” but now more generally applied to mean verses defective alike in sense and in rhythm.
  • n. Burlesque poetry, generally in irregular measure.
  • n. Mean, paltry verses, defective in sense and in rhythm.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a comic verse of irregular measure
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rhyme    verse   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verse    trivial   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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