like, or in the style of, Samuel Butler's Hudibras, a mock-heroic satirical poem (1663-78) in iambic-tetrameter and rhyming couplets, ridiculing the Puritans
Hudibrastic
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Hudibrastic
adjective
Of or relating to a style of satirical or mock-heroic verse composed in rhymed iambic tetrameter couplets.
Origin of Hudibrastic
After Hudibras a satiric epic by Samuel ButlerTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Adjective
(comparative more hudibrastic, superlative most hudibrastic)
- Alternative spelling of Hudibrastic.
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