Pronounced: PRO-licks, adj
Notes: An interesting word
Yesterday’s word
The word clerihew is “a humorous, pseudo-biographical verse of four lines of uneven length, using the rhyming scheme AABB and with the first line containing the name of the subject”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1920s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the name of the man who originated this rather dubious art form – Edmund Clerihew Bentley. I expect you would welcome some examples; Mr Bentley’s most famous clerihew was this one:
Sir Christopher Wren
Said “I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St Paul’s.”
Another one of his:
George the Third
Ought never to have occurred.
One can only wonder
At so grotesque a blunder.
Here’s one by someone else:
Did Decartes
Depart
With the thought
“Therefore I’m not”?
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