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doggrel

doggrel is the archaic form of doggerel.

Meaning of doggerel

Adjective

doggerel (not comparable)

  1. Of a crude or irregular construction.
    • True Wit has ſeen its best days long ago, / It ne're look'd up, ſince we were dipt in Show: / When Senſe in Dogrel Rimes and Clouds was loſt, / And Dulneſs flouriſh'd at the Actors coſt.1677 (date written), John Dryden, “Prologue”, in The Kind Keeper; or, Mr. Limberham: A Comedy: […], London: […] R[ichard] Bentley, and M[ary] Magnes, […], published 1680, →OCLC

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Forms of doggrel

pluraldoggrels

Questions about doggrel

What is doggrel the archaic form of?
Doggrel is the archaic form of doggerel.

Words near doggrel in the dictionary

  1. doggones
  2. doggonest
  3. doggoning
  4. doggonit
  5. doggos
  6. doggrel
  7. doggrelize
  8. doggrelized
  9. doggrelizes
  10. doggrelizing
  11. doggrels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doggrel (page history and authors); doggerel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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