limerick
See also: Limerick
WOTD – 17 March 2007
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɪməɹɪk/
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Noun
limerick (plural limericks)
- A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having a 9–9–6–6–9 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, Adrian Truss as Jerry Lewis and Jennifer Hale as Samantha “Sam”, “Sis-KaBOOM-Bah!”, in Totally Spies!: Undercover, season 4, episode 15, written by Rhonda Smiley, Teletoon, Marathon Media:
- 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:
Translations
rhyming verse of five lines
Further reading
Limerick (poetry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Limerick (song) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Limerick (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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