CLERIHEW


Meaning of CLERIHEW in English

[ 'klɛrɪhju: ]

■ noun a short comic or nonsensical verse, typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring to a famous person.

Origin

1920s: named after the English writer Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who invented it.

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