Clerihew (noun)
kle-ri-hue
A short comic or nonsensical verse, typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring to a famous person.
1920s named after Edmund Clerihew Bentley (see Bentley, Edmund Clerihew), who invented it.
Example sentences
“The gathering guffawed at the witty clerihews.”
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