Dutch Meaning of limerick

limerick

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Definitions and Meaning of limerick in English

Wordnet

limerick (n)

port city in southwestern Ireland

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

Webster

limerick (n.)

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/Si/cle, I deem/But her Journal Intime/Was what sent her papa to Uganda.//

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limerick

port city in southwestern Ireland, a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabbaA nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1

gedicht,psalm,rijm,Sonnet,Versregel,ballade,Clerihew,dithyrambe,ekloge,elegie

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limer => Vijl, limenitis camilla => Kleine weerschijnvlinder, limenitis astyanax => Zilvervlekparelmoervlinder, limenitis arthemis => Gouden weerschijnvlinder, limenitis archippus => Viceroy (vlinder),