limerick

• n. 5行のリメリック（韻律aabbaの5行で構成される短い大衆ユーモラスな詩）。
• n. （リムリック）人名; （英）Limerick

アイルランドの地名で、通常、1896年にリムリックで開かれた詩人たちの会合で、「リムリックまで来てくれないか」で始まるリムリックを交代で作ることが提案されたことに由来すると考えられている。

limerick

limerick: [19] The best-known writer of limericks is of course Edward Lear, but ironically the term limerick was not born until after Lear was dead. It is first recorded in 1896, and is said to have come from a Victorian custom of singing nonsense songs at parties, in the limerick rhymescheme (aabba), which always ended with the line ‘Will you come up to Limerick?’ (Limerick of course being a county and town in Ireland).

limerick (n.)

nonsense verse of five lines, 1896, perhaps from the county and city in Ireland, but if so the connection is obscure. Often (after OED's Murray) attributed to a party game in which each guest in turn made up a nonsense verse and all sang a refrain with the line "Will you come up to Limerick?" but he reported this in 1898 and earlier evidence is wanting. Or perhaps from Learic, from Edward Lear (1812-1888) English humorist who popularized the form. Earliest examples are in French, which further complicates the quest for the origin. OED's first record of the word is in a letter of Aubrey Beardsley. The place name is literally "bare ground," from Irish Liumneach, from lom "bare, thin." It was famous for hooks.

The limerick may be the only traditional form in English not borrowed from the poetry of another language. Although the oldest known examples are in French, the name is from Limerick, Ireland. John Ciardi suggests that the Irish Brigade, which served in France for most of the eighteenth century, might have taken the form to France or developed an English version of a French form. ... The contemporary limerick usually depends on a pun or some other turn of wit. It is also likely to be somewhat suggestive or downright dirty." [Miller Williams, "Patterns of Poetry," Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1986]

1. He is full of imagination and can knock off a limerick in a few minutes.

彼は想像に富んでいて、わずか数分で5行の油打ち詩を書くことができます。

2.Or God will toss off a limerick for your pleasure.

または神はあなたを喜ばせるために5行の油詩を投げた。

3.Will someone please help me fill in the blanks in my limerick ？

5行の油詩を書いてくれる人はいますか？

4.I decided to write a limerick about you！

あなたに関する油打ち詩を書きたい。

5.The traditional limerick ，which is usually and hence circulated oraly，could be considered folk poetry.

伝統的な五行打油詩は民間詩と見なすことができ、この打油詩は通常内容が下品なので、口先だけに伝わる。