Definition of Doggrel. Meaning of Doggrel. Synonyms of Doggrel

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Definition of Doggrel

Doggrel
Doggrel Dog"grel, a. & n. Same as Doggerel.

Meaning of Doggrel from wikipedia

- Doggerel, or doggrel, is poetry that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect. Alternatively, it can mean...
- predictions oe [sic] Robert Nixon, commonly called the Cheshire prophet; in doggrel verse: published from an authentic m****cript, ... Together with Nixon's...
- appropriate tune is not always recorded. The words when read from the page are doggrel but, when sung to the correct tune, come over very well indeed. They are...
- Appendix, in which is a Translation of Part of the first Canto into Latin Doggrel, London, 1752. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Bacon, Montagu" . Dictionary...
- serio-comic drama in one act, printed in Lacy (volume 55). Horæ Jocosæ, or the Doggrel Decameron, being ten facetious tales in verse, to which are added some...
- said, "Hannah teems with resplendent beauties, but is enfeebled by the doggrel of poor Kit Smart." Sherbo p. 164 Mounsey p. 264 Smart (1983) p. 156 Smart...
- (London, 1660, fol. 3) Wickham Wakened; or the Quaker's Madrigall in Rhime Doggrel (1672, quarto), a diatribe against a rival practitioner of Wycombe, who...
- he entertained his colleagues with his rhyming skills, "the smoothest doggrel". It is likely that during his time in Paisley his publication was being...