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doggerel

[daw-ger-uhl, dog-er-] / ˈdɔ gər əl, ˈdɒg ər- /




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Like much of Boston, it goes back to the Brahmins, the elite caste of the city, among whom, according to the doggerel, “The Lowells talk only to Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God.”

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

For 15 years, he wrote a long-form narrative every three weeks for the New Yorker; he’s also written shorter reported pieces, comic sketches and doggerel for the Nation, Time and elsewhere.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2024

You can’t write doggerel for Burt Bacharach songs.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

In a letter to the West Sussex County Times, a critic resorted to doggerel to denounce Knepp’s “ragwort shame, spread like the plague, and who’s to blame?”

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2020

As she passed the mantelpiece, she looked up at the framed doggerel.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie




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