Dog"ger*el (?), a. [OE. dogerel.]
Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he.
Chaucer.
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Dog"ger*el, n.
A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.
Doggerel like that of Hudibras.
Addison.
The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers.
Macaulay.
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