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Limerick

Limerick Meaning & Definition
Limerick Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Limerick?

[n] a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
[n] port city in southwestern Ireland

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See Also | city | Eire | Ireland | Irish Free State | metropolis | port | rhyme | urban center | verse

Limerick In Webster's Dictionary

\Lim"er*ick\, n. [Said to be from a song with the same verse construction, current in Ireland, the refrain of which contains the place name Limerick.] A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of there feet, and rime, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rime; as There was a young lady, Amanda, Whose Ballades Lyriques were quite fin de Si[`e]cle, I deem But her Journal Intime Was what sent her papa to Uganda.

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