Hudibrastic

American  

[hyoo-duh-bras-tik, yoo-] / ˌhyu dəˈbræs tɪk, ˌyu- /

adjective

1. of, relating 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.

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noun

1. a Hudibrastic couplet or stanza.

hudibrastic British  

/ ˌhjuːdɪˈbræstɪk /

adjective

1. mock-heroic in style

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Other Word Forms

• Hudibrastically adverb

Etymology

Origin of Hudibrastic

1705–15; Hudibras + -tic

Example Sentences

See, for instance, some lines in "Hudibrastic measure," Gentleman's Magazine, vol.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

They sound Hudibrastic, but I cannot find them in Hudibras.

From Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

This saucy boy, who had his "Hudibras" at his tongue's end, carried the satirical spirit with him to church on Sundays, and tried some of the brethren whom he saw there by the Hudibrastic standard.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

Here and there the struggle inspired a brisk ballad like Francis Hopkinson's "Battle of the Kegs," a Hudibrastic satire like Trumbull's "McFingal," or a patriotic song like Timothy Dwight's "Columbia."

From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Perry, Bliss

Ross, now-a-days best known as the Ross of Hudibrastic memory.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn