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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

Mr. Verplanck was one of the writers of the Buck Tail Bards, a satirical poem, of Hudibrastic flavor.

From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II 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

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

I have always thought, moreover, that the Hudibrastic aphorism is worthy of practice, because nothing can be more evident than the fact that "—He who runs away May live to fight another day."

From Fifteen Years in Hell by Luther Benson

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

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