Limerick Definition

lĭmər-ĭk
limericks
noun
A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, now often bawdy, usually with the rhyme scheme aabba, the first, second, and fifth lines having three stresses, the third and fourth having two: the form was popularized by Edward Lear (Ex.: There was a young lady named Harris, | Whom nothing could ever embarrass | Till the bath salts one day | In the tub where she lay | Turned out to be plaster of Paris)
Webster's New World

A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically has a 9-9-6-6-9 cadence.

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pronoun
A county in the Republic of Ireland.
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A town in the county of Limerick.
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Noun

Singular:
limerick
Plural:
limericks

Origin of Limerick

  • After Limerick

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Limerick Sentence Examples

  • A limerick is a kind of burlesque epigram, written in five lines.

  • At the west end of the bridge is preserved the Treaty Stone, on which the Treaty of Limerick was signed in 1691.

  • The principal industrial establishments include flour-mills (Limerick supplying most of the west of Ireland with flour), factories for bacon-curing and for condensed milk and creameries.

  • In 1199-1201 he was supporting in turn Cathal Carrach and Cathal Crovderg for the native throne, but he was expelled from Limerick in 1203, and, losing his Connaught, though not his Munster estates, died in 1205.

  • In 1848 William Smith O'Brien, M.P. for Limerick, raised a rebellion in Tipperary, and the lower classes in Dublin were greatly agitated.

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