doggerel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a comic verse of irregular measure

   They had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through their minds.

2. 2
   noun

   A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.

   Taffy drew a long breath into his manly bosom, and kept it there as he read this characteristic French doggerel (for so he chose to call this touching little symphony in ère and ra).

Probably from dog + -rel (“pejorative suffix”), akin to Dog Latin, late 14th c.

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