12 September 2017
doggerel
[daw-ger-uh l, dog-er-]
adjective
1. comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure.
rude; crude; poor.
noun
2. doggerel verse.
Also, doggrel [daw-gruh l, dog-ruh l].
Origin of doggerel
Middle English
1350-1400; Middle English; see dog, -rel; cf. dog Latin
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Examples from the Web for doggerel
Historical Examples
Because you recited that doggerel about The Run of Crusader.
Thoroughbreds
W. A. Fraser
Ramsey shook his head and tried to force the thoughts from his mind with doggerel.
Equation of Doom
Gerald Vance
This supposition has found strength and sanction in doggerel verse.
Welsh Folk-Lore
Elias Owen
By now, Presley could not tell whether what he had written was true poetry or doggerel.
The Octopus
Frank Norris
My lady was pleased to laugh at the doggerel, and even Mrs. Manners.
Richard Carvel, Complete
Winston Churchill
One of them had written a bit of doggerel on a sheet of paper and tacked it to a tree.
The Putnam Hall Champions
Arthur M. Winfield
It is only doggerel but it helps to keep the idea before our people.
The New Glutton or Epicure
Horace Fletcher
It was doggerel, bad enough to satisfy every aspiration of an antiquary.
The Wizard’s Son, Vol. 1(of 3)
Margaret Oliphant
I occupied myself, as I often do, in composing a bit of doggerel to the rhythm of the wheels.
Walking Shadows
Alfred Noyes
This was at once removed by the saying aloud of some charm in doggerel verse.
Lancashire Folk-lore
John Harland
Anagram
go ledger
gored leg
older egg
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12 September 1990 – formal end of World War II. In 1945 there was no formal German state to accept the terms of surrender or the ongoing governing of Germany. The 1945 Potsdam Agreement set the provisional terms under which the Allies would govern Germany. The lack of a German government at the time, became known as ‘The German Question’ and was used by the U.S.A. as the reason for maintaining American bases in West Germany throughout the Cold War. It wasn’t until German re-unification in 1990, that the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) unified. To achieve full sovereignty the new unified state was required to accept the terms of the Potsdam Agreement. A settlement was then negotiated with the new German government between the new German state, the U.S.A, France, U.S.S.R and Britain, formally ending World War II.
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