Doggerel vs Dogged - What's the difference?
doggerel | dogged |
(poetry) Of a crude or irregular construction. (Originally applied to humorous verse, but now to verse lacking artistry or meaning.)
* 1678 , , "Prologue to Limberham," lines 1-4,
(poetry) a comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure
A doggerel poem or verse.
* 1895 , ,The Red Badge of Courage , ch. 8,
*:: "Sing a song 'a vic'try,
*:: A pocketful 'a bullets,
*:: Five an' twenty dead men
*:: Baked in a—pie."
(dog)
* 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh :
stubbornly persevering, steadfast
* 1900 , , The Son of the Wolf :
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
As adjectives the difference between doggerel and dogged
is that doggerel is of a crude or irregular construction. (Originally applied to humorous verse, but now to verse lacking artistry or meaning. while dogged is stubbornly persevering, steadfast.As a noun doggerel
is a doggerel poem or verse.As a verb dogged is
past tense of dog.doggerel
English
(wikipedia doggerel)Alternative forms
* doggrelAdjective
(-)- True wit has seen its best days long ago;
- It ne'er look'd up, since we were dipp'd in show:
- When sense in doggerel rhymes and clouds was lost,
- And dulness flourish'd at the actors' cost.
Noun
(en noun)- As he marched he sang a bit of doggerel in a high and quavering voice:
References
* * * * * "doggerel" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
dogged
English
Etymology 1
From the verb to dog .Verb
(head)- At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.
Etymology 2
From (etyl), characteristics similar to that of a dog .Adjective
(en adjective)- Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
