| 单词 | doggerel |
| 释义 | doggerel (once / 7592 pages) n We're not sure why poor dogs always seem to get used to describe something really dreadful, but it's the case with doggerel — meaning irregularly rhyming, really bad poetry, usually comic in tone and fit only for dogs. Sometimes doggerel has a non-critical meaning: plenty of popular comic poets (like Lewis Carroll or any limerick inventor) had no aim to make great art, just great light verse, and they succeeded brilliantly. They were masters of doggerel. But pity the earnest highbrow poet like the immortal Scotsman William McGonagall whose doggerel was so bad his audience frequently pelted him with eggs and rotting vegetables. Now his poetry was only fit for the dogs. WORD FAMILYdoggerel: doggerels USAGE EXAMPLESBack in the day, depressed Qing writers would share self-mocking doggerel verse in the newspaper. New York Times(Nov 16, 2016) Perhaps no children’s form is more ancient than the book of verse, those compilations of light doggerel meant to entertain and instruct. New York Times(Nov 11, 2016) The tepid little anecdotes and doggerel in The Canadian Readers found no love in his heart. The Guardian(Sep 10, 2016) n a comic verse of irregular measure he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind Syn|Hyper doggerel verse, jingle rhyme, verse a piece of poetry |
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