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Definition: Doggerel |
DoggerelNoun1. A comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "doggerel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Doggerel Inferior sort of verse in rhymes. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Doggerel might have any or all of the following failings:
A story that has been fastened to the names of Dorothy Parker, William James, and Gertrude Stein has the writer fall asleep, and in a dream he or she receives a profound insight, which the writer makes sure to get down on paper before falling back to sleep. Come the morning, the literary celebrity discovers that the deep thought that came in a dream was:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Doggerel."
Synonyms: DoggerelSynonyms: doggerel verse (n), jingle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Poetry | Doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad; macaronics; macaronic verse, leonine verse; runes. |
Ridiculousness | Farce, comedy; burlesque; (ridicule); buffoonery; (fun); frippery; doggerel verses; absurdity; bombast; (unmeaning); anticlimax, bathos; eccentricity, monstrosity; (unconformity); laughingstock. |
Drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible; (unimportant); doggerel; ironical; (derisive); risible. | |
Vulgarity | Unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish; uncultivated; Bohemian. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Doggerel |
| English words defined with "doggerel": doggerel verse, Doggrel ♦ Hudibrastic ♦ jingle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "doggerel": Dunmow Flitch ♦ eighty-column mind ♦ Hudibrastic Verse ♦ Kidderminster Poetry ♦ MacFlecknoe. (references) |
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| "Doggerel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doggerel" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "doggerel": doggerel verse. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
doggerel | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "doggerel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | poezi e dobët. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | شعر هزلي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хумористични стихове, бездарни стихове, бездарен (talentless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 顺口溜. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neumìlé verše, kostrbatý verš. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | شعربندتنبانی (Limerick), شعربد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | poésie comique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | holperig (blundering, bumpily, bumpy, clumsy, coarse, halting, haltingly, jerky, jolty, rough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άτεχνη ποίηση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | páros rímű fűzfavers, klapancia, fűzfavers. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | versi, filastrocca. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ronneeaght (catch, ditty, foolish song, horse play, madrigal, ranting, revel; raving in drink, revelry, ribaldry, versification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oggerelday interior (bowels, country, depth, inboard, indoor, indwelling, inner, inside, interior, internal, inward, up-country). (various references) poezie burleascã. (various references) скверные стихи, нескладный (cumbersome, cumbrous, gangling, muff, oafish, three-cornered, unwieldy), плохие стихи. (various references) loši stihovi, grubi stihovi. (various references) de versos ramplones, versos ramplones, aleluyas. (various references) haltande vers. (various references) yazınsal değeri olmayan şiir, yazınsal değeri olmayan. (various references) погані вірші, поганий (bad, bum, cheesy, deplorable, ill, inferior, nasty, naught, naughty, objectionable, one horse, punk, rubbishy, shady, sour, third rate, unlovely, weak). (various references) dở, vè, thơ t"i, thơ dở, t"i (deplorable, foul, illy, poor, poorly, punk, rotten, third-rate, threepenny, trashy, wretched), như vè. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "doggerel": doggerels. (additional references) | |
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"Doggerel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dogeral, dogerel, dogeril, dogerrel, doggarel, doggeral, doggered, Doggerell. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "doggerel" (pronounced dÄ"gerul) |
| 4 | -g er u l | inaugural. |
| 3 | -er u l | admiral, agricultural, architectural, behavioral, bilateral, collateral, Corporal, countercultural, cultural, doctoral, electoral, ephemeral, federal, femoral, funeral, Gen, general, guttural, horticultural, humoral, intercultural, lateral, liberal, literal, littoral, mackerel, mayoral, mineral, multicultural, multilateral, natural, neoliberal, nomenclatural, nonagricultural, numeral, pastoral, pectoral, peripheral, pickerel, postdoctoral, prefectural, procedural, scriptural, sculptural, sectoral, structural, supernatural, temporal, trilateral, unilateral, unnatural, visceral. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-g-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: doggrel. | |
-2 letters: dogger, dogleg, gelder, golder, gorged, ledger, legged, lodger, logged, logger, redleg. | |
-3 letters: edger, egged, egger, elder, erode, geode, glede, gleed, gored, gorge, greed, grego, ledge, leger, lodge, ogled, ogler, older. | |
-4 letters: deer, dele, dere, doer, doge, dole, dore, dree, dreg, edge, eger, ergo, geed, geld, gled, glee, gleg, goer, gold, gore, gree. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-g-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: doggerels. | |
+2 letters: loggerhead. | |
+3 letters: leapfrogged, loggerheads, waterlogged. | |
+4 letters: agglomerated, degringolade, doppelganger. | |
+5 letters: degringolades, doppelgangers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 67 67 65 72 65 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- --. --. . .-. . .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01100111 01100111 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o g g e r e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0067 0067 0065 0072 0065 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3881737371847178 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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