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clerihew
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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.
[After Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), British writer.]
clerihew
Noun
a form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets and containing the name of a well-known person [after E. Clerihew Bentley, who invented it]
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Noun1.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


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