CLERIHEW

clerihew

(noun) a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person; “‘The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right’ is a clerihew”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

Clerihew (plural Clerihews)

Alternative letter-case form of clerihew.

Etymology

Named after the English humourist and novelist Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), who invented the rhyme.

Noun

clerihew (plural clerihews)

A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line. [from 1920s]

Source: Wiktionary



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