Hudibrastic

Hudibrastic
Hudibrastically, adv.
/hyooh'deuh bras"tik/, or, often, /yooh'-/, adj.
1. of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663-78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
2. of a playful burlesque style.
n.
3. a Hudibrastic couplet or stanza.
[1705-15; Hudibras + -TIC]

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