Usually means: Crudely or irregularly fashioned verse.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word Doggerel:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. doggerel: Merriam-Webster
  2. doggerel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. doggerel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. doggerel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. doggerel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Doggerel, doggerel: Wordnik
  7. doggerel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. doggerel: Wiktionary
  9. doggerel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. doggerel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. doggerel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Doggerel, doggerel: Dictionary.com
  13. doggerel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Doggerel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Doggerel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. doggerel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. doggerel: Rhymezone
  18. Doggerel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. doggerel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Doggerel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. doggerel: FreeDictionary.org
  22. doggerel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Doggerel: The Word Detective
  24. doggerel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. doggerel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  2. DOGGEREL: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. doggerel: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. doggerel: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (doggerel)

▸ adjective:  (poetry) Of a crude or irregular construction.
▸ noun:  (poetry) A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.
▸ noun:  (by extension) Any writing of crude composition.

Similar:
jingle, doggerel verse, doggrel, pooey, dog-cheap, dogwater, draggle-tail, earthbred, pooched, daggle-tailed, more...

Opposite:
poetry, verse, prose, literature

Phrases:
doggerel verse, more...

Adjectives:
mere, such, old, wretched, certain, rhymed, popular, english, latin, sheer, obscene
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Similar:
jingle, doggerel verse, doggrel, pooey, dog-cheap, dogwater, draggle-tail, earthbred, pooched, daggle-tailed, more...

Opposite:
poetry, verse, prose, literature

Phrases:
doggerel verse, more...

Adjectives:
mere, such, old, wretched, certain, rhymed, popular, english, latin, sheer, obscene



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