名詞 limerick:

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

lim.er.ick

n.（名詞）
A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines usually with the rhyme schemeaabba.
五行打油詩：韻腳通常為aabba 的幽默、無聊或下流的抑抑揚格五行詩

來源：
After Limerick
源自 Limerick

<注釋>Etymologies can sometimes be a bit disappointing,as, for example,when one is told thatlimerick is named after a city or county in Ireland without being told why it is so named.Unfortunately, we run into a difficulty here that is not uncommonly faced by etymologists,namely, that no one is precisely sure why this piece of humorous verse was so named.One theory is that it was named for a group of poets who wrote in Limerick in the 8th century;another, that it came from a custom at parties of making up a nonsense verse and following it with a chorus of .Will you come up to Limerick..In any case,the first limericks appeared in books published in 820 and 82,and the form was popularized by Edward Lear in a collection published in 84'.The word itself, however, is not recorded until 89'.Let us sum up by saying:.There once was a verse form named limerick./No one can account for the name of it./Some think from a game/Or from poets it came./If you know please come up to Limerick..
查看詞源學(xué)后會經(jīng)常令我們失望，這是因為，比如，當(dāng)某人得知limerick 是由愛爾蘭的一城市（或一個郡的）名字而來， 卻并不告知這樣命名的原因。不幸的是，我們碰到了一個詞源學(xué)家經(jīng)常遇到的難題，那就是，沒有一個人能確定為什么這種幽默的詩歌這樣命名。一種理論認(rèn)為它是源于8世紀(jì)在利默里克寫作的一群詩人；還有一種看法認(rèn)為它是源于一種集會上的風(fēng)俗，這種風(fēng)俗要求寫完一毫無意義的詩后眾人合唱.你將去利默里克嗎.。不管怎樣，820年和82年出版的這種五行打油詩集子廣為流傳，愛德華·利爾于84'年出版的集子使這種形式得到普及。但是，這個單詞直到89'年才有記載。我們可以通過這么說來總結(jié)：.曾經(jīng)有種詩的形式名叫利默里克。/但沒有人能解釋它的名字。/有人認(rèn)為源于一種游戲/或源于一群詩人。/如果你知道就到利默里克來。.