limerick
A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba,…A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.
» Are limericks always funny?
Sind Limericks immer lustig?
Meaning
1 sensesA humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.
Limerick
ли́мерикlímerik
a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
Examples
4 sentencesAre limericks always funny?
deSind Limericks immer lustig?
The limerick is an Irish poetry form.
I didn't think Tom's limerick was very funny.
There was a man from Nantucket who hated limericks.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
From the Irish town name Limerick, Irish Luimneach [ˈl̪ˠɪmʲənʲəx].From the Irish town name Limerick, Irish Luimneach [ˈl̪ˠɪmʲənʲəx].
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