limerick

About 0.74 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.

Similar words

verse poem naughty rogue rascal ottava rima iambic tetrameter iambic pentameter terza rima sonnet

Often followed by

and in to was city is on were by

Word family

Limerick limerick lace limericks