limerick

Meaning of limerick

noun

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

Information about limerick

It is a name.
The plural form of limerick is: limericks.
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Hyphenation of limerick

lim-er-ick

It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
limerick is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

limerick synonyms

Meaning Limerick:

Words that rhyme with limerick

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