limerick

From the Irish town name Limerick, Irish Luimneach [ˈl̪ˠɪmʲənʲəx].

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪm(ə)ɹɪk/

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limerick (plural limericks)

1. 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.

   • 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?

• Limerick (poetry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Limerick (song) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Limerick (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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limerick m (plural limericks)

1. limerick

• “limerick”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English limerick.

limerick c

1. a limerick

• limerick in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• limerick in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• limerick in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)