Hudibrastic

adj

Hudibrastic

adj

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

1

Of, or relating to a style of English verse that mocks heroic verse.

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.1908, Wilfrid Hugh Chesson, George Cruikshank, pages 71–72:

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