Doggerel

Adjective

 * 1)  Of a crude or irregular construction. (Originally applied to humorous verse, but now to verse lacking artistry or meaning.)
 * 2) * 1678, John Dryden, "Prologue to Limberham," lines 1-4,
 * True wit has seen its best days long ago;
 * It ne'er look'd up, since we were dipp'd in show:
 * When sense in doggerel rhymes and clouds was lost,
 * And dulness flourish'd at the actors' cost.
 * 1)  a comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure

Noun

 * 1) A doggerel poem or verse.
 * 2) * 1895, Stephen Crane,The Red Badge of Courage, ch. 8,
 * As he marched he sang a bit of doggerel in a high and quavering voice:
 * "Sing a song 'a vic'try,
 * A pocketful 'a bullets,
 * Five an' twenty dead men
 * Baked in a—pie."

Thesaurus
Doric, Hudibrastic verse, amphigory, barbaric, barbarous, burlesque, cacophonous, caricatural, clumsy, coarse, crambo, crambo clink, crude, dysphemistic, farcical, graceless, gross, halting meters, harsh, improper, impure, in bad taste, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, infelicitous, lame verses, limping meters, low, macaronic, macaronic verse, macaronics, nonsense verse, outlandish, parodic, rude, satiric, tasteless, uncourtly, uncouth, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungraceful, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, vulgar

Alternative forms

 * doggrel

Adjective

 * Icelandic: kveðinn, stirðkveðinn


 * Icelandic: kímlegur

Noun

 * Icelandic: leirburður, hnoð, leirrensli,, skáldskapur,