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limerick

noun

1 Limerick

Port city in southwestern Ireland.

2 limerick

A humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba.

Dutch: limerick
Polish: limeryk


Moby thesaurus: English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy ... show more.

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