HUDIBRASTIC

PRONUNCIATION: (hyoo-duh-BRAS-tik)

MEANING: adjective: Mock-heroic; playfully burlesque or satirical.
noun: A piece of verse or writing in this style.

ETYMOLOGY: After Hudibras (published in three parts in 1663, 1664, and 1678), a mock-heroic satirical poem by Samuel Butler. Earliest documented use: 1712.
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HUDIBRASTIC - Hard-drinking, arrogant, womanizing, living a self-centered, indolent life, like Hud Bannon as personified by Paul Newman in the 1963 movie Hud

MUDIBRASTIC - shiny metal, splattered with wet earth

HAD l BRA STIC - possessed only one stiffener for my brassiere