doggerel

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Hard at work on the lyrics for the show was Doge of Doggerel Ogden Nash.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am afraid that great Numbers of those who admire the incomparable Hudibras, do it more on account of these Doggerel Rhymes than of the Parts that really deserve admiration.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Enough, Friedrich got to Wesel, back to his business, in a day or two; and had done, as we forever have, with the Strasburg Escapade and its Doggerel.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Carlyle, Thomas

It is a Dispute among the Criticks, whether Burlesque Poetry runs best in Heroick Verse, like that of the Dispensary;2 or in Doggerel, like that of Hudibras.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

I had Lessons for breakfast, and Sums for my tea, Learnt to play the Arithmetic nicely, And gained all the prizes at School—don’t you see, For construing Doggerel concisely.

From Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo by Farrow, G. E. (George Edward)