clerihew
(noun) a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person; ââThe president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is rightâ is a clerihewâ
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Clerihew (plural Clerihews)
Alternative letter-case form of clerihew.
Named after the English humourist and novelist Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875â1956), who invented the rhyme.
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
18 May 2024
(adjective) lighted by sunlight; âthe sunlit slopes of the canyonâ; âviolet valleys and the sunstruck ridgesâ- Wallace Stegner
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
