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ALL meanings of clerihew

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  • noun clerihew a form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically irregular lines, containing the name of a well-known person 3
  • noun clerihew a humorous, quasi-biographical poem made up of two rhymed couplets with lines of varying length and meter 3
  • noun clerihew a light verse form, usually consisting of two couplets, with lines of uneven length and irregular meter, the first line usually containing the name of a well-known person. 1
  • noun clerihew A short comic or nonsensical verse, typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring to a famous person. 1
  • noun clerihew A rhyme of four lines, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line. 0
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