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hudibrastic

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Hu⋅di⋅bras⋅tic

[hyoo-duh-bras-tik, or, often, yoo-]
–adjective
1. of, pertaining 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.
–noun
3. a Hudibrastic couplet or stanza.

Origin:
1705–15; Hudibras + -tic


Hu⋅di⋅bras⋅ti⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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Hu·di·bras·tic   (hyōō'də-brās'tĭk)   
adj.  Of or relating to a style of satirical or mock-heroic verse composed in rhymed iambic pentameter couplets.

[After Hudibras, a satiric epic by Samuel Butler.]
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