clerihew

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cler·i·hew (kl

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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 [ˈklɛrɪˌhjuː]

(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]

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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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clerihew

n → Clerihew nt, → witziger Vierzeiler

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Bentley rhyme verse			Edmond Clerihew Bentley created the Clerihew, a four-line poem with an AABB rhyme scheme and an irregular rhythm. Two tales with palindromic endings by Morice, David / Word Ways And a cartoon by Nicholas Clerihew Bentley, from about 1950, shows Peeping Tom leaning out of a window. GO: ART: BRUSH STROKES by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) In the early 1980s, for example, he wrote a series of short poems in a form known as the "clerihew," which is similar to a limerick, and named for its Victorian-era English originator, Edmund Clerihew Bentley. O for a muse of fire: the iconoclasm of Jonathan Williams and the ... by Patterson, Tom / Afterimage			CLEP clepe Clepsine clepsydra clept cleptomania cleptophobia clerestory Clergeon Clergial Clergical clergy Clergyable clergyman clergywoman cleric clerical clerical collar clericalism clericalist clericals Clericity clerid clerid beetle Cleridae clerihew clerisy clerk Clerk of the pells clerk of the works clerk of works Clerk-ale Clerkage Clerkery clerkess clerking Clerkless Clerklike Clerkliness clerkly clerkship Clermont-Ferrand cleromancy Cleronomy Clerstory cleruchy Cletch Clethra Clethra alnifolia Clethraceae Clethrionomys			Clerical workers Clerical workers Clerical workers Clerical workers in the United States Clerical workers in the United States Clerical workers in the United States Clerical workers in the United States clericalism clericalism clericalism clericalist clericalist clericalist clericalists clericalists clerically clerically clericals clericals Clericity Clerics Clerics of St. Viator Clerics Regular of St. Paul Clerics Regular of the Pious Schools, Piarist Fathers Clericus, Johannes clerid clerid beetle Cleridae Cleridae Clerides, Glafkos John clerihew Clerihews Clerihews Clerihews Clerinet Clerinet Clerinet clerisy clerisy clerk clerk clerk clerk clerk Clerk in Charge clerk in holy orders clerk in holy orders clerk in holy orders clerk in holy orders Clerk of Court Revenue Remittance System Clerk of Courts Clerk of the court Clerk of the Peace Clerk of the pells Clerk of the Works Clerk of the Works Clerk of the Works Clerk of the Works Clerk of Works Clerk of Works Clerk of Works

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