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Limerick — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • limerick noun A humorous five-line poem with a bouncing rhythm and an AABBA rhyme scheme.

Senses

Limerick is used for these senses in English:

  • limerick A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.