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.”
Tripartite (adj) triy-part-iyt Divided into or consisting of three parts. Agreed by three parties. 1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin tripartītus divided into three parts, equivalent to tri- tri- +…
