Hudibrastic

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

After Hudibras, a mock-heroic poem by Samuel Butler, +‎ -ic.

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Hudibrastic (comparative more Hudibrastic, superlative most Hudibrastic)

  1. Of, or relating to a style of English verse that mocks heroic verse.
    • 1908, Wilfrid Hugh Chesson, George Cruikshank, pages 71–72:
      The illustrations to Dr Syntax's Hudibrastic poem on Napoleon have some originality to recommend them as a starting-point for the student of Cruikshank as a delineator of historical subjects.

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