Look up: Limerick

1. Limerick
   Form of light verse consisting of five lines and rhymed: a-a-b-b-a. The first, second and fifth lines contain three feet while the third and fourth lines contain two feet. The form was popularised by the Victorian poet Edward Lear. Lear often used the same word at the end of the first and fifth line...
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2. limerick
   [n] - port city in southwestern Ireland 2. [n] - a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
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3. limerick
   Five-line humorous verse, often nonsensical, which first appeared in England in about 1820 and was popularized by English writer Edward Lear. An example is:`There was a young lady of Riga, Who...
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4. Limerick
   A five-line comic verse following the syllable pattern 8 8 6 6 8 with the rhyme scheme a a b b a. Early limericks, such as the nonsense verse of Edward Lear, repeat line 1 in line 5. However, recent verse does not always follow this model.
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5. Limerick
   Lim'er·ick noun [ 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, ...
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6. limerick
   noun a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
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7. Limerick
   noun port city in southwestern Ireland
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8. Limerick
   • (n.) 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/cle, I deem/But her Journal Intime/Was what sent her papa to Uganda.//
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9. Limerick
   county, southwestern Ireland, in the province of Munster. Its northern boundary, with County Clare, is the River Shannon and its estuary. The River ...
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10. Limerick
    county borough, port, and chief town of County Limerick, west-central Ireland, occupying both banks and King`s Island of the River Shannon at the ...
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11. limerick
    a popular form of short, humorous verse that is often nonsensical and frequently ribald. It consists of five lines, rhyming aabba, and the dominant ... [1 related articles]
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12. limerick
    a fixed verse form appearing first in The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women (1820), popularized by Edward Lear, and rhyming aabba, where a-lines have five feet and the b-lines three feet, and where the first and last lines end with the same word (a practice dropped in the 20th century). A limer...
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13. limerick
    
    • port city in southwestern Ireland
    • a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
    
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14. limerick
    limerick, type of humorous verse. It is always short, often nonsensical, and sometimes ribald. Of unknown origin, the limerick is popular rather than literary and has even been used in advertising. The rhyme scheme of most limericks is usually aabba, as in the following example:There was an old man ...
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15. Limerick
    Limerick (lim'urik) , county (1991 pop. 161,956), 1,037 sq mi (2,686 sq km), SW Republic of Ireland. Limerick is the county seat. The region is an agricultural plain lying S of the Shannon estuary. The Golden Vale in the eastern part of the county and the Shannon bank are especially fertile. Dai...
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16. Limerick
    Limerick, city (1991 pop. 56,083), seat of Co. Limerick, SW Republic of Ireland, at the head of the Shannon estuary. The city has a port with two docks. The primary imports are grain, timber, and coal; exports include produce and fish. Limerick's industries include salmon fishing, food processing, f...
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17. Limerick
    (town) County town of County Limerick and fourth-largest city in the Republic of Ireland, on the Shannon estuary; population (2002) 87,000. The city is divided into three parts: English Town, which is the old city on King's Island (an island in the Shannon estuary); Irish T...
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18. limerick
    Five-line humorous verse, often nonsensical, which first appeared in England in about 1820 and was popularized by English writer Edward Lear. An example is: `There was a young lady of Riga, Who rode with a smile on a tiger; They returned from the ride With the lady inside, And the smile on the face of the tiger.`
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19. Limerick
    (county) County of the Republic of Ireland, in the province of Munster; county town Limerick; area 2,690 sq km/1,038 sq mi; population (2002) 175,200. The principal river is the Shannon, and towns include Abbeyfeale, Kilmallock, Newcastle West, and Rathkeale. Limerick is hilly ...
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20. Limerick
    (poetry) A `limerick` is a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line anapestic--> or amphibrachic--> meter with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba), which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent. The form can be found in England as of the early years of the 18th cen...
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21. Limerick
    `Limerick` (; ˈl̪imʲənəx--> meaning "bare marsh" or "bare place of the horses", a name that is Roman and is originally applied to part of the shoreland of the Shannon immediately below the present city--> is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and ...
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22. Limerick
    (song) The `Limerick` is a traditional humorous drinking song with many obscene verses. Alternate titles for this song are "In China They Never Eat Chili", "Sing Us Another One", "Ya-Ya", "Rodriguez the Mexican Pervert" and "Aye-Yi-Yi-Yi". The...
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23. Limerick
    (Dáil Éireann constituency) `Limerick` is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transf...
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24. Limerick
    (constituency) The Irish county `Limerick` has been represented through several parliamentary constituencies: ;Before 1801 :*Askeaton (Parliament of Ireland constituency) :*Kilmallock (Parliament of Ireland constituency) :*Limerick City (Parliament of Ireland constituency) :*Limerick County (...
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