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Word: doggereleer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

Before most newspapers gave up the chase as a waste of time, the newsmen paraphrased an old bit of doggerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...this inspired Reader "C.A.A." to try his hand at coining collectives-this time for clerics-and end the arguments on cats with doggerel. Wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Clowder & Kindle | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...compliment. In one of these are they notably successful, though they do try hard. Their humor for the most part does not evoke a spontaneous "heh-heh" or even a "haw-haw-haw"; it is of the "well, when you come to think of it this is pretty smooth doggerel" variety...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: On the Shelf | 4/28/1951 | See Source »

...rhapsodized a Kansas City Star reader about the most popular feature the Star has ever run: Elmer Wheeler's "Fat Boy's" diet series. The doggerel pinned down a fact that was astounding editors across the U.S. last week. Reducing diets for men have become so popular that they are displacing Page One news stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Diets for Men | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...tree moved one alumnus to send a bit of protesting doggerel to the Harvard Crimson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Whatnot at Harvard | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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