as in sonnet
a humorous rhyming composition of five lines
She recited an old limerick which elicited guffaws from the crowd
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Recent Examples of limerick
Like Andy Warhol’s soup cans, Slaughterhouse-Five, with its jokes, drawings, risqué limericks and flying saucers, blurs the line between high and low culture.
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Susan Farrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2023
The team started with sonnets, then went on to limericks.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
In May 1990, third-grader Taylor Burns sent him a handwritten limerick about a mouse found in a stew.
—Emma Balter, Chron, 4 Oct. 2022
Lines 1, 2 and 5 of a limerick rhyme with one another, as do Lines 3 and 4.
—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
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Susan Farrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2023
The team started with sonnets, then went on to limericks.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
In May 1990, third-grader Taylor Burns sent him a handwritten limerick about a mouse found in a stew.
—Emma Balter, Chron, 4 Oct. 2022
Lines 1, 2 and 5 of a limerick rhyme with one another, as do Lines 3 and 4.
—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for limerick
Noun
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But in those years, Shakespeare would produce a bounty of plays, sonnets and poems that have been studied, modernized, adapted, saturized and lionized for decades.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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Read: Let our critic guide you through the power and paradox of an old-school sonnet.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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His teacher quickly got her students analyzing the poems of William Blake.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 Apr. 2025
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Just before his death, McVeigh handed a copy of the poem by William Ernest Henley to the prison warden.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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See how the rapper translates his rhymes into a distinct visual language.—
Julia Jacobs,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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That tariff rates set by the US (and China) are at levels only last seen in the 1920’s completes the shock, and rhymes with history.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The rabbi intones psalms and speaks about his mother, offering recollections of her and the principal details of her life: birth in the embers of the Shoah, Yiddishkeit, Soviet existence, antisemitism, immigration, courage, struggle, family, community, legacy.—
David Bezmozgis,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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Then, using his talents playing the lyre and singing psalms, David grew to be a supportive comfort to the possibly mad King Saul (Ali Suliman) as well as begin a romance with Saul’s daughter, Michal (Indy Lewis).—
Jim Halterman,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2025
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With her legal team’s permission, Yanou and Manian, who both prefer to keep a low profile and are no longer a part of Cascada, interpolated Reilly’s chorus and wrote entirely new verses and production arrangements.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
18 Apr. 2025
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The record does, however, feature a brand new verse from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Limerick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limerick. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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