Limerick

Definitions: Limerick

Limerick

Noun

1. Port city in southwestern Ireland.

2. A humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba.

Date "Limerick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Note: Limerick \Lim"er*ick\, noun. [Said to be from song with the same verse construction, current in Ireland, the refrain of which contains the place name Limerick.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Limerick

Specialty definitions using "Limerick": Golden Valley ♦ Railways ♦ Stone of the Broken Treaty ♦ Wise as the Women of Mungret. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Limerick" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (Limerick), Hungarian (Limerick), Italian (Limerick), Swedish (Limerick).

Towns and cities named Limerick
- Limerick, Ireland
- Limerick, Pennsylvania—see also Limerick nuclear power plant
- Limerick, Maine, United States of America
County Limerick
Limerick (poetry)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Nope, no poetry, but we're hell on wheels with a limerick. Wanna hear one? (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna)
Song Titles	Bach Goes To Limerick (performing artist: Steeleye Span)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Henry Hook's Guess the Celebrity Crosswords: 50 All-New Pop-Culture Puzzles With a Limerick Twist (reference) I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue - Pick of the Limerick Round (reference) The Limerick : 1700 examples, with notes, variants, and index (reference) The Limerick Trick (reference) The New England Sailors' Limerick Guide: 110 Limericks of Ports, Passages & Places Along the Entire New England Coast & Long Island (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The McCourts of Limerick (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Negotiation Limerick File / 3 Mc's [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Ireland	Other cities--Cork (127,187), Galway (57,241), Limerick (52,039), Waterford, (42,540). (references)
	Ireland	Dublin, Cork, and Limerick are the three largest ports, with Dublin the principal port. (references)
	Ireland	Local government is by elected county councils and--in the cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and Waterford--by county borough corporations. (references)
Trade	Ireland	Bonded warehouses are operated in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and Galway. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Limerick" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 78.95% of the time. "Limerick" is used about 114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	78.95%	90	34,744
Noun (singular)	20.18%	23	72,767
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.88%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	114	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Limerick" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Limerick	Last name	300	26,354
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. Limerick, ME
Zip Code(s): 04048
Country: USA

2. Limerick, PA
Zip Code(s): 19468
Country: USA

3. Limerick , Ireland
Location: 52.40 North, 8.38 West
Population (2000 estimate): 95865
Country: Ireland

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Expression: Limerick

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "Limerick": non-limerick.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Limerick

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
limerick	640	example limerick	9
limerick ireland	329	fm limerick	9
limerick poem	210	limerick golf course	9
limerick university	73	limerick golf club	8
limerick leader	63	limerick radio	8
limerick poetry	50	clarion hotel limerick	8
limerick post	46	limerick accommodation	8
limerick hotel	43	limerick ny	8
limerick me	27	council county limerick	7
limerick pa	19	dirty limerick	7
limerick write	18	auctioneer limerick	7
limerick maine	14	new limerick	7
institute limerick technology	13	jurys hotel limerick	6
hotel in limerick	13	hotel limerick ireland	6
golf limerick	12	limerick nantucket	6
limerick travel	12	limerick starter	6
limerick township	11	limerick inn	6
limerick map	11	chevrolet limerick	5
city of limerick	10	city limerick map	5
gaa limerick	10	ireland limerick map	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Limerick

Language		Translations for "Limerick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Poemth Humoristik Pesëvargësh. (various references)

Arabic		‏اللمريكية قصيدة خماسية فكاهية. (various references)

Bulgarian		Вид Хумористично Петостишие. (various references)

Czech		Rýmovaèka. (various references)

Esperanto		Limeriko. (various references)

Farsi		شعرغیرمسجع پنج بندی , شعربندتنبانی (Doggerel). (various references)

French		Poème Humoristique De 5 Vers. (various references)

German		Limerick. (various references)

Greek		Αστείο Πεντάστιχο, ίωμικό Πεντάστιχο. (various references)

Hebrew		ַמשיר. (various references)

Hungarian		Limerick, Nonszensz Vers, Abszurd Vers. (various references)

Irish		Luimneach. (various references)

Italian		Limerick. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		戯歌 (comic song, funny song). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ざれうた (comic song, funny song). (various references)

Pig Latin		imericklay

Portuguese		Ribalta (float, footling, stage). (various references)

Russian		Шуточное Стихотворение. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		smešan stih, grofovija u irskoj. (various references)

Spanish		Quintilla Cómica. (various references)

Swedish		Femradig Dårdikt. (various references)

Turkish		Beş Mısralık Esprili Þiir. (various references)

Ukranian		Жартівливий Вірш. (various references)

Vietnamese		bài thơ hài hước năm câu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Limerick

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Limerick": limericks. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Limerick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ilersic, Laverick, Lemrick, Linmack, lowerick, Mlinaric. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Limerick"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Limerick" (pronounced li"merik)
3	-er i k	choleric, maverick, phosphoric, rhetoric.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Limerick

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-k-l-m-r"
	-1 letter: mickler, milkier.
	-2 letters: ickier, licker, limier, mickle, milker.
	-3 letters: clerk, clime, crime, icier, icker, kelim, kilim, liker, melic, miler, relic.
	-4 letters: ceil, cire, emic, emir, keir, kier, lice, lick, lier, like, lime, lire, liri, merk, merl, mice, mick, mike, mile, milk, mire, miri, mirk, reck, rice, rick, riel, rile, rime.
	-5 letters: cel, elk, elm, ice.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-k-l-m-r"
	+1 letter: limericks.
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