limerick

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.
    — The limerick, it would appear, Is a verse form we owe Edward Lear; Two long and two short Lines rhymed, as was taught, And a fifth just to bring up the rear.

词形变化

limericks plural limeric alternative,obsolete

词源

From the Irish town name Limerick, Irish Luimneach [ˈl̪ˠɪmʲənʲəx].
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