Definitions for doggerel

doggerel dog·ger·el

Spelling: [daw-ger-uh l, dog-er-]
IPA: /ˈdɔ gər əl, ˈdɒg ər-/

Doggerel is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in doggerel (deegglor).

Definitions for doggerel

noun

  1. doggerel verse.

adjective

  1. comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure. rude; crude; poor.

Origin of doggerel

1350-1400; Middle English; see dog, -rel; cf. dog Latin

Examples for doggerel

By now, Presley could not tell whether what he had written was true poetry or doggerel.

This supposition has found strength and sanction in doggerel verse.

I occupied myself, as I often do, in composing a bit of doggerel to the rhythm of the wheels.

One of them had written a bit of doggerel on a sheet of paper and tacked it to a tree.

Because you recited that doggerel about The Run of Crusader.

Ramsey shook his head and tried to force the thoughts from his mind with doggerel.

It is only doggerel but it helps to keep the idea before our people.

My lady was pleased to laugh at the doggerel, and even Mrs. Manners.

This was at once removed by the saying aloud of some charm in doggerel verse.

It was doggerel, bad enough to satisfy every aspiration of an antiquary.

Word Value for doggerel
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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