Meaning Of The Word Hudibrastic

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Hudibrastic in American English
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
adjective: of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets
noun: a Hudibrastic couplet or stanza

hudibrastic in British English
adjective: mock-heroic in style

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