clerihew
英 ['klerɪhjuː]
美['klɛrɪhju]
- n. 克莱里休4行打油诗（一种刻画人物特征的幽默讽刺诗）；嵌名打油诗
- n. (Clerihew)人名；(英)克莱里休
英英释义
- 1. a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person;
- "`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew"
英文词源
- clerihew (n.)
- humorous verse form, 1928, from English humorist Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), who described it in a book published 1906 under the name E. Clerihew.