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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

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Etymology

Origin of Hudibrastic

1705–15; Hudibras + -tic

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Example Sentences

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Hudibrastic

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 James Parton

Edward Ward, a very voluminous poet in Hudibrastic verse, but best known by the London Spy, in prose.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by George Gilfillan

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

Whatever the intentions of the poet, it seems to be the property of the Hudibrastic couplet inevitably to denigrate its subject.

From Aesop Dress'd Or a collection of Fables by Jean de La Fontaine

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 William Dunn Macray

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