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doggerel, doggrel, a. and n.|ˈdɒgərəl, ˈdɒgrəl|
Also 4 dogerel, 5–7 -ell, 6–7 doggerell, doggrell, 6–9 dogrell, 7–8 doggril, 8 dogrel.
[Origin unknown; but cf. dog n.1 19 e.]
A. adj. An epithet applied to comic or burlesque verse, usually of irregular rhythm; or to mean, trivial, or undignified verse.
c1386Chaucer Melib. Prol. 7 Now swich a Rym the deuel I biteche This may wel be Rym dogerel quod he. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 294 For thoughe I shulde all day tell Or chat with my ryme dogerell. 1526Skelton Magnyf. 413 In bastarde ryme after the doggrell gyse. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. iv. (Arb.) 89 A rymer that will be tyed to no rules at all..such maner of Poesie is called in our vulgar, ryme dogrell. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Dogge of Warre Wks. ii. 226/1 In doggrell Rimes my Lines are writ As for a Dogge I thought it fit. 1711Addison Spect. No. 60 ⁋11 The double Rhymes, which are used in Doggerel Poetry. 1789Belsham Ess. I. xii. 233 The vile doggrel translation of Hobbes. 1868Stanley Westm. Abb. v. 397 The doggrel epitaphs which were hung over the royal tombs.
b. transf. Bastard, burlesque.
1550Bale Apol. 93 (R.) The diuinite doggerell of that dronken papist Johan Eckius. 1873G. C. Davies Mount. & Mere xix. 177 A doggrel form of prayer.
B. n. Doggerel verse; burlesque poetry of irregular rhythm; bad or trivial verse.
1630Tincker of Turvey Ep. Ded. 5 Clownes [have here] plaine dunstable dogrell, for them to laugh at. 1710Addison Whig Exam. No. 1 ⁋14 He has a happy talent at doggrel. 1880L. Stephen Pope iii. 71 Chapman..sins..by constantly indulging in sheer doggerel.
b. A piece of doggerel; a doggerel poem.
1857O. A. Brownson Convert Wks. V. 120 The electioneering campaign of 1840, carried on by doggerels [etc.]. 1892Anne Ritchie Rec. Tennyson, etc. iii. vii. 216 A doggerel always had a curious fascination for him [Browning].
Hence ˈdogg(e)rel v., -ize v., intr. to compose doggerel; trans. to turn into doggerel; ˈdogg(e)reler, -ist, -izer, a writer of doggerel; ˈdogg(e)relism, a doggerel manner of writing.
1680R. L'Estrange Answ. Litter Libels 9 His Ranging of them Together is a kinde of a Doggrilism. 1732Gentl. Instructed (ed. 10) 43 (D.) Were I disposed to doggrel it, I would only gloss upon that text. 1817Monthly Mag. XLIII. 421 The Scotch doggerelist. 1821Blackw. Mag. X. 388 The Atys, which..Mr. Lambe has so cruelly doggrelized. 1822Ibid. XI. 363 These dabbling doggrelers. 1832Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 259 Some true doggrelizers. 1850Reade Chr. Johnstone vi. (1853) 65 He had been doggrelling when he ought to have been daubing. |