Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person;
- Example: "`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
clerihew \clerihew\ n.
a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and
mentioning a famous person.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
clerihew
n 1: a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and
mentioning a famous person; "`The president is George W.
Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his
armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a
clerihew"