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The answer LIMERICKS has 7 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of limericks in various dictionaries:
noun - port city in southwestern Ireland
noun - a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
noun - a humorous verse
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| Five-liners |
| Strains bearing fruit in verses |
| Five-line verses |
| AABBA works |
| Anapestic poems |
| Five-lined verses |
| Humorous verses of 5 lines |
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| Plural form of limerick. |
| a humorous five-line poem with a rhyme scheme iaabbai. |
| Limericks might refer to |
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| A limerick is a form of verse, often humorous and sometimes obscene, in five-line, predominantly anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA, in which the first, second and fifth line rhyme, while the third and fourth lines are shorter and share a different rhyme. The following example is a limerick of unknown origin:* The form appeared in England in the early years of the 18th century. It was popularized by Edward Lear in the 19th century, although he did not use the term. Gershon Legman, who compiled the largest and most scholarly anthology, held that the true limerick as a folk form is always obscene, and cites similar opinions by Arnold Bennett and George Bernard Shaw, describing the clean limerick as a "periodic fad and object of magazine contests, rarely rising above mediocrity". From a folkloric point of view, the form is essentially transgressive; violation of taboo is part of its function. Lear is unusual in his creative use of the form, satirising without overt viola |