Hyphenation of clerihew

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word clerihew? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

cler-i-hew

Definitions of clerihew:

1.	A witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person `The president is George W. Bush
2.	Who is happy to sit on his tush
3.	While sending his armies to fight
4.	For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew

Synonyms of clerihew:

noun	verse, rhyme

Last hyphenations of this language

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