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clerihew

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈklɛɹɨˌhjuː/Part of speech nounSorted ceehilrwStarts with CEnds with W0 clues
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Definitions

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

Used in a sentence

  • CLERIHEW CONTEST. CNV announces a clerihew contest, with the best examples to be published in this newsletter.
  • He [Peter Warlock] was the writer of brilliant limericks and clerihews and had a fine line in barbed invective.
  • This form was initiated by Edmund Clerihew Bentley who throughout his life kept churning out Clerihews, the name they ultimately became known by; he had published three collections under the name E. Clerihew.

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