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• Type of light-verse quatrain
• A witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
• Verse minister cut and cut again
• Form of light verse

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 .

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

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.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley . The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person put in an absurd light. The rhyme scheme is AABB, and the rhymes are often forced. The ...

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"