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limerick |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Limerick \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: limerick n : a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Limerick, ME Zip code(s): 04048 Limerick, PA Zip code(s): 19468
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