CLERIHEW

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person

Example:

'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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("clerihew" is a kind of...):

rhyme; verse (a piece of poetry)

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