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Hudibrastic

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, or relating to a style of English verse that mocks heroic verse.

    "The illustrations to Dr Syntax's Hudibrastic poem on Napoleon have some originality to recommend them as a starting-point for the student of Cruikshank as a delineator of historical subjects."

  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of Hudibrastic. alt-of, alternative

Etymology

After Hudibras, a mock-heroic poem by Samuel Butler, + -ic.

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