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.
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n. a comic verse of irregular measure
Word Usage
"But, fortunately, there's a med (gabapentin), and there's physical therapy, which combined have delivered me to Level 5, where I write from now and where the pain, pardon the doggerel, is more reminding than blinding."