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clerihew
noun
A witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
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noun
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”
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‘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
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