doggerelizev.
/ˈdɒɡ(ə)rəlʌɪz/, /ˈdɒɡ(ə)rl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡ(ə)rəˌlaɪz/, /ˈdɑɡ(ə)rəˌlaɪz/ 1. transitive. To turn (something) into doggerel.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > bad poem or doggerel poem > write bad poetry [verb (transitive)] > turn into doggerel
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1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 388 The Atys, which..Mr. Lambe has so cruelly doggrelized.
1840 Speech of W. O. Butler 25 My little friend from Indiana, who has doggrelized this war in such fine style.
1915 J. G. Fletcher Irradiations p. xiv The street singer who is content to doggerelize and make strident a once noble form.
1994 K. J. Gergen in H. W. Simons & M. Billig After Postmodernism i. ii. 64 There are..myriad means of ambiguating, complexifying, doggerelizing or transforming any utterance to imbecility.
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1841 W. G. Simms Let. 20 June (1956) V. 356 I commenced doggrelizing at 8 or 9, began to accumulate my doggrel in books even at that early period.
1853 U.S. Rev. June 528 At one time, all chimed in with ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’;..at another, they scolded or doggerelized, like Byron.
1855 W. G. Simms Forayers xliii. 512 Thus doggrelizing as they went, the two led their laughing cohort down into the swamp.
Derivatives
ˈdoggerelizer n. = doggerelist n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > writer of doggerel
water poet1612
water-rhymera1637
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1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 259 Some true doggrelizers.
1997 D. M. Hooley tr. Persius in Knotted Thong i. 47 You're a doggerelizer, baldy. And your paunch hangs out a good foot and a half to boot!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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