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“Hickory, Dickory, Dock”

  1. A nursery rhyme:

    Hickory, Dickory, Dock,

    The mouse ran up the clock,

    The clock struck one,

    The mouse ran down;

    Hickory, dickory, dock.



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Tea—oceans of tea—and a ridiculous nursery rhyme called “Hickory Dickory Dock.”

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Her mums help as she reads "Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse ran up the clock…"

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Well, hickory dickory dock — or, we should say, gickory gickory gock: It’s time once again for the Limerixicon, our 14th annual check-in with OEDILF.com, the project by Chris J. Strolin and his merry team to compile a dictionary of limericks featuring every word in the English language.

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The child was singing Hickory Dickory Dock, very fast, as Hambro shut the door.

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Jack and Jill went tumbling down Jack and Jill went up the hill Jack and Jill went round the corner Jack and Jill went to the well Hickory dickory dock!

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