of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
of a playful burlesque style.
1705–15; Hudibras + -tic
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His Hudibrastic verses are poor scurrilous trash, as the reader may judge from the description of the Highlanders, already quoted.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Scott, Walter, Sir
In 1814, George illustrated a Life of Napoleon in Hudibrastic verse, by Dr. Syntax, not our friend Combe, but some anonymous admirer of his hero.
From Old Coloured Books by Paston, George
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
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
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