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limerick

/ˈlɪməɹɪk/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having a 9–9–6–6–9 cadence.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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