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单词 clerihew
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
cler•i•hew  (klerə hyo̅o̅′),USA pronunciation n. [Pros.]
  1. Poetrya light verse form, usually consisting of two couplets, with lines of uneven length and irregular meter, the first line usually containing the name of a well-known person.
  • named after English. Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), English writer, its inventor 1925–30

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
clerihew /ˈklɛrɪˌhjuː/ n
  1. a form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically irregular lines, containing the name of a well-known person
Etymology: 20th Century: named after Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who invented it
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