doggerel
Speech parts
1. doggerel - Noun
2. doggerel - Adjective
Meaning
Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.
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he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind
About this time a verse was circulated at Oxford of which he was to write later: “Never has more harm been done to one single individual than that accursed doggerel has done to me.”
She dedicated her book to me, telling me that it was inspired by something that I'd once said about the interior size of British Woods, and I wrote a doggerel poem to thank her.