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■ 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.
[ '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.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004