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• Hudibrastic
  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.
• hudibrastic
  hudibrastic

  adjective

  mock-heroic in style

Hudibrastic

American  

[hyoo-duh-bras-tik, yoo-] / ˌhju dəˈbræs tɪk, ˌju- /

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

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Hudibrastic

We confess we can find none—we can find nothing but a set purpose to be obscure, and an idiot captivity to the jingle of Hudibrastic rhyme.

From Early Reviews of English Poets by John Louis Haney

It is a simple rendering in Hudibrastic verse of a familiar nursery story.

From Charles Lamb by Walter Jerrold

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 Bliss Perry

Thus we are enabled to throw back more than a century these famous Hudibrastic lines, which have occasioned so many inquiries for their origin.

From Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850 by Various

There is great Hudibrastic vigour in these lines; and those on the doctors are also very terse.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge