limerick
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See also: Limerick
English
Etymology
From the Irish town name Limerick, Irish Luimneach [ˈl̪ˠɪmʲənʲəx].
Pronunciation
Noun
limerick (plural limericks)
- A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.
- Description of the limerick in limerick form:
- The limerick, it would appear,
Is a verse form we owe Edward Lear;
Two long and two short
Lines rhymed, as was taught,
And a fifth just to bring up the rear.
- The limerick, it would appear,
- 2006 May 24, Rhonda Smiley, “Sis-KaBOOM-Bah!”, in Totally Spies!: Undercover, season 4, episode 15, spoken by Jerry Lewis and Samantha “Sam” (Adrian Truss and Jennifer Hale), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:
- Take a look. That’s Buffy, Muffy, and Fluffy.
Do they have anything in common other than names you could write a limerick around?
- Description of the limerick in limerick form:
Derived terms
Translations
humorous rhyming verse of five lines
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Further reading
Limerick (poetry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Limerick (song) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Limerick (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
French
Noun
limerick m (plural limericks)
Further reading
- “limerick”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
limerick c
- a limerick
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | limerick | limericks |
| definite | limericken | limerickens | |
| plural | indefinite | limerickar | limerickars |
| definite | limerickarna | limerickarnas |
References
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