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Clerihew   Listen
noun
clerihew  n.  A witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Clerihew" Quotes from Famous Books



... in G.K.'s life were Lucian Oldershaw who became his brother-in-law and will often reappear in these pages, and Edmund Clerihew Bentley, his friend of friends. Closely united as was the whole group, Lucian Oldershaw once told me that they were frantically jealous of one another: "We would have done anything to get ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward



Words linked to "Clerihew" :   verse



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