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doggerel

/daw-ger-uhl, dog-er-/US // ˈdɔ gər əl, ˈdɒg ər- //UK // (ˈdɒɡərəl) //

狗仔队,俗语,文绉绉的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure.rude; crude; poor.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : doggerel verse.

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Examples

  • In the words of the old doggerel: The rain it falls alike, On the just and unjust fella.

  • Some scornful commentator has called this doggerel; but I would that all doggerel were as interesting.

  • The old words which Burns's songs superseded were wretched doggerel; not such were the ancient Greek heroic lays.

  • On the left wall, as one faces the choir, is a curious doggerel inscription to one Busbie.

  • He seems to have spent the greater part of his useless life in composing doggerel verses which he addressed to his sisters.

  • The Atlantic cable was a theme of inspiration for innumerable sermons and a prodigious quantity of doggerel.