Definition of limerick
English to English noun - port city in southwestern Ireland
source: WordNet 3.0 - a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
source: WordNet 3.0 - 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
Siècle, I deem
But her Journal Intime
Was what sent her papa to Uganda.
source: Webster 1913
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