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limerick

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It’s probably okay, though, if you’ve just shared your limerick with friends on your Facebook page, on a little-seen blog, etc.

The best of our limericks build to a punchline, a clever ending.

Good luck — and be sure to keep your limerick chops warmed up for our annual Limerixicon contest in August.

When we ask for a limerick, we want it to observe several rules.

The Invitational is a humor contest, and so we want our limericks to be clever and funny.

No alarms were triggered as she strolled out of the Giant supermarket in Limerick, Pennsylvania, and nobody thought otherwise.

I was born in Limerick city but grew up in a small town in County Donegal—remote, windy, lots of rain.

As a teenager in 1952, Lee became pregnant and was immediately sent to a convent in Roscrea, County Limerick.

And I was trying to illustrate that with a more familiar example, which would be something like the repetition of a limerick.

He was taken to a place in Ireland called Limerick where he suffered undue hardships as opposed to due hardships.

Now the Waterford and Limerick were to lose, not only the Ennis line, but all their lines and their own identity as well.

On the 8th we ran our first running power train, and the Joy Bells rang in Limerick.

If only we could obtain running powers to Limerick and carry them back to Ireland, we should have secured some of the spoil.

Clanricarde himself dared not say a word, and Limerick threatened to be soon as bad as Galway.

He had spoiled the Sheriff of Limerick and threatened to cut his tongue out for complaining.

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On this page you'll find 76 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to limerick, such as: cinque, cinquefoil, lustrum, pentacle, pentad, and pentagon.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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