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CLERIHEW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does clerihew mean?
• CLERIHEW (noun)
The noun CLERIHEW has 1 sense:
1. a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
Familiarity information: CLERIHEW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context 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
Hypernyms ("clerihew" is a kind of...):
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