What's the difference between doggerel and doggrel?
Doggerel
Definition:
(a.) Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
(n.) A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
(2) Illustrations of attunements in analysis are attempted by means of doggerel verses about some patients.
(3) Take the Go Compare tenor, a cheery bulbous eejit warbling doggerel set to melodies so basic that the average nursery rhyme sounds like one of Sun Ra's more outre soundscapes by comparison.
(4) (Parody and doggerel and facetiousness are big features of Burns suppers.
(5) I'll have the real pleasure of performing the first poem I learned by heart when I was about 10 – Burns's To a Mouse , On Turning Her up in Her Nest With the Plough, November 1785, a poem which, like any great poem, continues to both further delight and to mean different, deeper things to me as I grow older – and then my actor friend Frances will chip in with a daft doggerel response of mine, From a Mouse .
(6) It is written in excruciating doggerel verse, with appallingly irritating rhymes and shapeless rhythms.
(7) The same principles of criticism apply to buildings as to literature: who wants pastiche and doggerel?
(8) And he recited for my benefit the doggerel that was very popular in this lovely part of the Erin Isle: "Ireland will be Ireland, When England was a Pup.