doggerel Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a comic verse of irregular measure
    jingle; doggerel verse.
    • he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind

WordNet

Dog"ger*el adjective
Etymology
OE. dogerel.
Definitions
  1. Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
    This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. Chaucer.
Dog"ger*el noun
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913