clerihew (redirected from Clerihews)

cler·i·hew  (klr-hy)

n.

A humorous verse, usually consisting of two unmatched rhyming couplets, about a person whose name generally serves as one of the rhymes.

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[After Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), British writer.]

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clerihew [ˈklɛrɪˌhjuː]

n

(Literature / Poetry) a form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically irregular lines, containing the name of a well-known person

[named after Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), English writer who invented it]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

clerihew - 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" rhyme, verse - a piece of poetry

Translations

clerihew

n → Clerihew nt, → witziger Vierzeiler