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De - Pt| English Dictionary: limerick | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for limerick | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Limerick \Lim"er*ick\, n. [Said to be from a song with the same verse construction, current in Ireland, the refrain of which contains the place name Limerick.] 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[egrave]cle, I deem But her Journal Intime Was what sent her papa to Uganda. | |
| From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
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Limerick, ME Zip code(s): 04048 Limerick, PA Zip code(s): 19468 | |
