doggrel

doggrel

English

Adjective

doggrel (comparative more doggrel, superlative most doggrel)

1. Alternative form of doggerel
   • 1808, Edited by Walter Scott, The Works of John Dryden, Vol. II‎:

     Your wit burlesque may one step higher climb, And in his sphere may judge all doggrel rhyme: All proves, and moves, and loves, and honours too; All that appears high sense, and scarce is low.

   • 1874, Mir Amman of Dihli, Bagh O Bahar, Or Tales of the Four Darweshes‎:

     I have not the vanity to think myself a poet; and I have a horror of seeing mere doggrel rhymes--such as the following-- "Mighty toil I've borne for years thirty, I have revived Persia by this Pursi."

Noun

doggrel (countable and uncountable, plural doggrels)

1. Alternative form of doggerel
   • 1890, William Gilmore Simms, Guy Rivers= A Tale of Georgia‎:

     The uncouth doggrel, recited in a lilting sort of measure, the peculiar and various pleasures of a canter upon a pine rail.

Anagrams

• roggled