Doggerel

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
doggerel
    n 1: a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some
         silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" [syn:
         {doggerel}, {doggerel verse}, {jingle}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Doggerel \Dog"ger*el\, a. [OE. dogerel.]
   Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
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         This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. -- Chaucer.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Doggerel \Dog"ger*el\, n.
   A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified
   poetry.
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         Doggerel like that of Hudibras.          -- Addison.
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         The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed
         his reverence for the brave sufferers.   --Macaulay.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "doggerel":
      Doric, Hudibrastic verse, amphigory, barbaric, barbarous,
      burlesque, cacophonous, caricatural, clumsy, coarse, crambo,
      crambo clink, crude, dysphemistic, farcical, graceless, gross,
      halting meters, harsh, improper, impure, in bad taste,
      inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecorous, inelegant,
      infelicitous, lame verses, limping meters, low, macaronic,
      macaronic verse, macaronics, nonsense verse, outlandish, parodic,
      rude, satiric, tasteless, uncourtly, uncouth, undignified,
      uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungraceful, unpolished, unrefined,
      unseemly, vulgar
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