Usually means: Satirical verse with limping meter.
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  10. choliamb: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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▸ noun:  (poetry) A limping iamb.

Similar:
lambling, callithump, rhymelet, crambo-clink, lambchop, hurple, leggie, crambo-jingle, calithump, liplet, more...

Opposite:
spondee, iamb, trochee, anapest

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Similar:
lambling, callithump, rhymelet, crambo-clink, lambchop, hurple, leggie, crambo-jingle, calithump, liplet, more...

Opposite:
spondee, iamb, trochee, anapest



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