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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A writer of doggerel.

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Examples

  • The range is broad – from irredeemable doggerelist William McGonagall to the great and good in their wobblier moments – Browning, Wordsworth, Hardy and Emily Dickinson among them.

    Poem of the week: Wind by Sydney Dobell 2010

  • An untreated paper cut is widely blamed for the early demise of the sixteenth-century French doggerelist, Rollo de Plantain, who had he lived might well have one day seen his work published.

    Bruce McCall: Bulletin from the Rechargable Electronic Reading Council 2009

  • An untreated paper cut is widely blamed for the early demise of the sixteenth-century French doggerelist, Rollo de Plantain, who had he lived might w ...

    Bruce McCall: Bulletin from the Rechargable Electronic Reading Council 2009

  • Although I am a passionate fan of the Digital Cuttlefish, I'd like to make it quite clear that my father is a similarly skillful though perhaps not quite as prolific doggerelist writer poet.

    Happy Birthday 1 Dinosaur 2009

  • Although I am a passionate fan of the Digital Cuttlefish, I'd like to make it quite clear that my father is a similarly skillful though perhaps not quite as prolific doggerelist writer poet.

    Archive 2009-02-01 1 Dinosaur 2009

  • An untreated paper cut is widely blamed for the early demise of the sixteenth-century French doggerelist, Rollo de Plantain, who had he lived might w ...

    Bruce McCall: Bulletin from the Rechargable Electronic Reading Council 2009

  • More bluntly put, he is a doggerelist, toiling in the service of the poor, maligned Left, countering by example its unmerited reputation for humorlessness.

    Hullabaloo 2004

  • I am not ordinarily a doggerelist, but the example of the sainted Dr. Bean moves me to summarize:

    'Listening to Prozac' Kramer, Peter D. 1994

  • And then he poked his eye out, as the ribald doggerelist has it.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892 Various

  • HPFacebookVoteV2. init (355967, 'Bulletin from the Rechargable Electronic Reading Council', 'Conceived, Executed and Distributed Without Paper An untreated paper cut is widely blamed for the early demise of the sixteenth-century French doggerelist, Rollo de Plantain, who had he lived might well have one day seen his work published.

    Bruce McCall: Bulletin from the Rechargable Electronic Reading Council 2009

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  • Calvin Trillin describes himself as a doggerelist ("one who writes doggerel") in this book.

    November 29, 2010