doggerel
From Middle English, poor, worthless, from dogge, dog.
doggerel == McGonagal? maybe not.
Roger
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From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 4:52 AM
Subject: another etymological query
> Just heard a reading of a long doggerel poem by Rachel Blau
> Duplessis, in which she plays with etymology, there being, she says,
> none for the word. So, any thoughts on "doggerel?:"
>
> Mark
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