英语词汇“clerihew”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

clerihew

/ˈklɛrɪhjuː

noun

A short comic or nonsensical verse, typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring to a famous person.Much of the lightest verse of Rochester or Buckingham has as sharp a wit as one of E. C. Bentley's clerihews....

There are also some laughs in the chapter on clerihews.
If you don't know what a ‘clerihew’ is, I will explain next week, with another example - perhaps about David Beckham.

Origin

1920s: named after Edmund Clerihew Bentley (see Bentley, Edmund Clerihew), who invented it.

单词	clerihew
释义	clerihew /ˈklɛrɪhjuː / noun A short comic or nonsensical verse, typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring to a famous person.Much of the lightest verse of Rochester or Buckingham has as sharp a wit as one of E. C. Bentley's clerihews.... There are also some laughs in the chapter on clerihews. If you don't know what a ‘clerihew’ is, I will explain next week, with another example - perhaps about David Beckham. Origin 1920s: named after Edmund Clerihew Bentley (see Bentley, Edmund Clerihew), who invented it.
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