limerick in Spanish
limerick in Spanish is quintilla — limerick means a humorous five-line poem with a bouncing rhythm and an AABBA rhyme scheme.
limerick in Spanish
quintilla
A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.
What does "limerick" mean?
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noun A humorous five-line poem with a bouncing rhythm and an AABBA rhyme scheme.
"He wrote a limerick about the office printer."
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limerick in a sentence
- He wrote a limerick about the office printer.
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What is "limerick" in Spanish?
"limerick" in Spanish is quintilla. limerick means: A humorous five-line poem with a bouncing rhythm and an AABBA rhyme scheme.
How do you use "limerick" in a sentence?
Example: "He wrote a limerick about the office printer." In Spanish, "limerick" is quintilla.
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