Hudibrastic
adjective
of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
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hudibrasticadjectivemock-heroic in style
Hudibrastic
American
[hyoo-duh-bras-tik, yoo-]
/ ˌhju dəˈbræs tɪk, ˌju- /
adjective
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of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
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of a playful burlesque style.
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hudibrastic
British
/ ˌhjuːdɪˈbræstɪk /
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Hudibrastic
1705–15; Hudibras + -tic
Example Sentences
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With its jog-trot meter, insinuating swiftness, and jarring double and triple rhymes, the Hudibrastic couplet was ideally suited to the mockery performed by low burlesque.
From Aesop Dress'd Or a collection of Fables by La Fontaine, Jean de
The one competing measure of course is the Hudibrastic octosyllabic.
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John
The catholic Ward, in his singular Hudibrastic poem of "England's Reformation," in some odd rhymes, has characterised it by a naïveté, which we are much too delicate to repeat.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac
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
The total number of Hudibrastic couplets in Aesop Dress'd comes to only a handful: They'll give you a hundred Niceties, As Chicken Bones, boyl'd Loins of Mutton, As good as ever Tooth was put in....
From Aesop Dress'd Or a collection of Fables by La Fontaine, Jean de
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