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clerihew

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Noun
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cler=i=hew

CIDE DICTIONARY

clerihewn. 
     a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

clerihew, n. a short comic or nonsensical verse, usu. in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring to a famous person.

Etymology
E. Clerihew Bentley, Engl. writer d. 1956, its inventor

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