"If you are hoping for an Arts Council grant for your rubba-dub-dub doggerel, you'd better keep the day job."
It's from the reader's response in The Independent to the comment of another reader about the the 'poem' put in the readers' comments:
"Old Git Tom Was a fine old man Taunts dem coppers As far as he can
Old Git Tom Never did run Faced dem coppers And had some fun
Old Git Tom Earned a bruise or two Fought dem coppers While the crowd grew
Old Git Tom Saw deir gloom Watch dem coppers Run as fast as a koon
Old Git Tom Heard everyone cheer No more coppers No more fear
Old Git Tom Fell face down in de mud One of dem coppers Left him ridd’n with blood."
My question is: is the noun "rubba-dub-dub doggerel" a neologism meaning 'nonsense' or is it a well-established word in the English vocabulary meaning something else?
Thank you.
Top answer
It's a disparaging suggestion that the poem submitted is poor quality verse - or doggerel. org/wiki/Rub-a-dub-dub (click on the link to read it in full). Rover
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