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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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 Gilfillan, George
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
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
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
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
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