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Clerihew

//ˈklɛɹɨˌhjuː// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line.

    "CLERIHEW CONTEST. CNV announces a clerihew contest, with the best examples to be published in this newsletter."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of clerihew. alt-of

    "This form was initiated by Edmund Clerihew Bentley who throughout his life kept churning out Clerihews, the name they ultimately became known by; he had published three collections under the name E. Clerihew."

  3. 3
    a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person wordnet

Etymology

Named after English humourist and novelist Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), who invented the rhyme.

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