haikai

[hahy-kahy]

hai·kai

[hahy-kahy]
noun, plural hai·kai for 2. Prosody.
1.
an informal type of linked verse originated by Bashō, a 17th-century Japanese poet.
2.
a poem of this type.

Origin:
1880–85; < Japanese haikai (no renga) jesting (linked verse); earlier faikai < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese páixié jest
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Haikai is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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haikai

a comic renga, or Japanese linked-verse form. The haikai was developed as early as the 16th century as a diversion from the composition of the more serious renga form

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