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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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[`e]cle, I deem But her Journal
         Intime Was what sent her papa to Uganda.

資料來源 : WordNet®

Limerick
     n 1: port city in southwestern Ireland
     2: a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme
        scheme aabba