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.

Doggrel


Definition:

  • (a. & n.) Same as Doggerel.

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