clerihew

n. 克莱里休4行打油诗(一种刻画人物特征的幽默讽刺诗,为英国作家所创)

发音

UK /ˈklɛɹɨˌhjuː/
其它
US /ˈklɛɹɪ̈ˌhju/

词形变化

clerihews 复数 clerihews

别名

Clerihew

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line.

    克莱里休诗

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

verse rhyme

词源

Named after English humourist and novelist Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), who invented the rhyme.

来源：wiktionary