Definition of Limereck
Limerick (159), Irish county on the S. of the Shannon estuary,
between Tipperary and Kerry, watered by the Mulcai, Maigue, and Deel;
hilly in the S., is mostly fertile, and under corn and green crops;
cattle are reared and dairy products exported; some woollens and paper
manufactured. There are many antiquities. Limerick (37), the county town,
on the Shannon, is the fourth Irish seaport, and manufactures a little
lace.
- Wikipedia
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
Siècle, I deem
But her Journal Intime
Was what sent her papa to Uganda.
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
Siècle, I deem
But her Journal Intime
Was what sent her papa to Uganda.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A city and county in the south-west of Ireland.
- A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba.
- There was a young pig of Devizes
- Whose balls were of two different sizes
- One was small
- It was no use at all
- The other so big, it took prizes.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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