S vs Doggerel - What's the difference?
s | doggerel |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(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."
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective doggerel is
(poetry) of a crude or irregular construction (originally applied to humorous verse, but now to verse lacking artistry or meaning).As a noun doggerel is
a doggerel poem or verse.s
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)Letter
Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}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)
