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doggerel
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synonyms: ~poetaster ???
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Definition:1. of bad poetic verse2. of humorous poetic verse
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His doggerel verse, "We seek him here, we seek him there," etc., was sung to the tune of "Ho! Merry Britons!" and to the accompaniment of glasses knocked loudly against the table.
Emma Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
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True wit has seen its best days long ago;
It ne'er look'd up, since we were dipp'd in show:
When sense in doggerel rhymes and clouds was lost,
And dulness flourish'd at the actors' cost.
John Dryden, Prologue to Limberham
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As she passed the mantelpiece, she looked up at the framed doggerel.
Ten little Indian boys went out to dine;
One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.59 (1939)
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Many Earthlings are glad that Earth does not have UWTB.
As the popular doggerel has it:
Willy found some Universal Will to Become, Mixed it with his bubble gum. Cosmic piddling seldom pays: Poor Willy’s six new Milky Ways.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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"Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool." "True," said Dupin, after a long and thoughtful whiff from his meerschaum, "although I have been guilty of certain doggrel myself."
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
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Mine eares ache for thy drafty* speech. *worthless
Now such a rhyme the devil I beteche:* *commend to
This may well be rhyme doggerel," quoth he.
"Why so?" quoth I; "why wilt thou lette* me *prevent
Chaucer. Tale of Meliboeus
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From Doncaster northwards, all the windows of all the inns are scrawled with doggeral rhimes, in abuse of the Scotch nation; and what surprised me very much, I did not perceive one line written in the way of recrimination
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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