Word: doggerel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their stylographic pens on the edges of their notes, write their names all over their books and indite doggerel to their female friends therein, all lay their trivial characters before us. Straws show which way the wind blows; study the men about you through their notes and you will not need a game of poker to tell his character...
...seems to me that such doggerel has no place outside of a valentine, or, perhaps, a college paper," writes a correspondent of a Boston paper of the poem sent to the Harvard Club of New York by W. W. Story, the artist. The first verse of the song, with the refrain, by the way, is as follows...
Pointless doggerel, misused slang...
MAUD. What doggerel! you should improve your style