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clerihew
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun clerihew has 1 sense
- clerihew(n = noun.communication) Array - 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" is a kind of rhyme, verse
CIDE DICTIONARY
clerihew, n.
a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
clerihew, n. a short comic or nonsensical verse, usu. in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring to a famous person.
Etymology
E. Clerihew Bentley, Engl. writer d. 1956, its inventor
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