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limerick

/lim-er-ik/US // ˈlɪm ər ɪk //UK // (ˈlɪmərɪk) //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet.

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Examples

  • It’s probably okay, though, if you’ve just shared your limerick with friends on your Facebook page, on a little-seen blog, etc.

  • The Invitational is a humor contest, and so we want our limericks to be clever and funny.

  • When we ask for a limerick, we want it to observe several rules.

  • The best of our limericks build to a punchline, a clever ending.

  • Good luck — and be sure to keep your limerick chops warmed up for our annual Limerixicon contest in August.

  • No alarms were triggered as she strolled out of the Giant supermarket in Limerick, Pennsylvania, and nobody thought otherwise.

  • I was born in Limerick city but grew up in a small town in County Donegal—remote, windy, lots of rain.

  • As a teenager in 1952, Lee became pregnant and was immediately sent to a convent in Roscrea, County Limerick.

  • And I was trying to illustrate that with a more familiar example, which would be something like the repetition of a limerick.

  • He was taken to a place in Ireland called Limerick where he suffered undue hardships as opposed to due hardships.

  • Now the Waterford and Limerick were to lose, not only the Ennis line, but all their lines and their own identity as well.

  • On the 8th we ran our first running power train, and the Joy Bells rang in Limerick.

  • If only we could obtain running powers to Limerick and carry them back to Ireland, we should have secured some of the spoil.

  • Clanricarde himself dared not say a word, and Limerick threatened to be soon as bad as Galway.

  • He had spoiled the Sheriff of Limerick and threatened to cut his tongue out for complaining.