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clerihew

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Noun

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cler=i=hew

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun clerihew has 1 sense

clerihew(n = noun.communication) - 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"

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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