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

• Minister reduced by hack’s comic verse
• Edmund C Bentley, for instance mocked gently; Vivaldi, when cut, cut again
• Four-line biographical poem
• Verse minister cut and cut again
• Type of light-verse quatrain
• Short comic rhyme

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
humorous verse form, 1928, from English humorist Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), who described it in a book published 1906 under the name E. Clerihew .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person; "`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"

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
clerihew \clerihew\ n. a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A rhyme of four lines, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line.