different between poetry vs doggerel

English

Alternative forms

• poëtry (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin po?tria, from po?ta (“poet”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (poi?t?s, “poet; author; maker”). Displaced native Old English l?oþcræft.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p???t?i/, [?p????t??]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?po??t?i/, [?p?o??.?t??i]
• Hyphenation: po?et?ry

Noun

poetry (usually uncountable, plural poetries)

1. Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.

   Synonyms: (archaic) poesy, verse

   Antonym: prose

2. A poet's literary production.
3. (figuratively) An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:poetry.

Derived terms

• poetry in motion

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Proyet, Torpey, tropey

English

Alternative forms

• doggrel

Etymology

Probably from dog +? -rel (“pejorative suffix”), akin to Dog Latin, late 14th c.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?????l/

Adjective

doggerel (not comparable)

1. (poetry) Of a crude or irregular construction.

Usage notes

The word was originally applied to humorous verse, but now refers to verse lacking artistry or meaning.

Translations

Noun

doggerel (countable and uncountable, plural doggerels)

1. (poetry) A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.

Translations

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “doggerel”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• doggerel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “doggerel” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "doggerel" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• “doggerel”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

Further reading

• doggerel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• relogged