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UK
/klˈɛɹɪhjˌuː/
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NOUN
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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
How To Use clerihew In A Sentence
- Note that the Dennis family has moved out of the district on account of pressure brought to bear on their children, mostly in the schools and some of it from teachers and coaches. clerihew replied to comment from Marion Delgado Freshwater: Yet another student and yet another cross - The Panda's Thumb
- There are also some laughs in the chapter on clerihews.
- Bentley composed the first clerihew about Sir Humphrey Davy, the chemist credited with isolating and naming aluminum. And Today Is… - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
- If you don't know what a ‘clerihew’ is, I will explain next week, with another example - perhaps about David Beckham.
- I was therefore already familiar with the categorical imperative, not least in Auden's rather fine clerihew: Free Software and the Categorical Imperative
- I wrote this clerihew about a week ago, but hesitated in posting it. Celebretoary Clerihew
- The literary form, the clerihew, was invented by a schoolboy, all about Sir Humphrey Davy who lived with the odium of having discovered sodium.
- But one thing is certain: counting hands is a medieval way to resolve that question, relying more on the concept of ‘might makes right’ than any rationality or logic. clerihew replied to comment from Chip Poirot The perfect phrase - The Panda's Thumb
- `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
- Paul Griffin describes A Christmas Carol in a clerihew that has as its first quatrain: ‘GIRL WITH EVERYTHING ASKS FOR MOOR’ — Witty Summaries of ‘Othello’ and Other Classics, Edited by E. O. Parrott « One-Minute Book Reviews