Usually means: Satirical verse with limping meter.
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  1. choliambic: Merriam-Webster
  2. choliambic: Collins English Dictionary
  3. choliambic: Wordnik
  4. choliambic: Wiktionary
  5. Choliambic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Choliambic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. choliambic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. choliambic: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Choliambic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (poetry) Employing or relating to choliambs, or limping iambs.
▸ noun:  (poetry) A choliamb.

Similar:
pythiambic, logaoedic, Meliboean, ithyphallic, logaedic, logaœdic, Melibean, palilalic, proceleusmatic, partheniac, more...

Opposite:
antilambic, proceleusmatic, dactylic, anapestic

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Similar:
pythiambic, logaoedic, Meliboean, ithyphallic, logaedic, logaœdic, Melibean, palilalic, proceleusmatic, partheniac, more...

Opposite:
antilambic, proceleusmatic, dactylic, anapestic



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