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crambo
[ kram-boh ]
noun
, plural cram·boes.
- a game in which one person or side must find a rhyme to a word or a line of verse given by another.
- inferior rhyme.
crambo
/ ˈkræmbəʊ /
noun
- a word game in which one team says a rhyme or rhyming line for a word or line given by the other team
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Word History and Origins
Origin of crambo1
First recorded in 1600–10; earlier crambe < Latin crambē repetīta “cabbage reheated, re-served,” a phrase used in Juvenal's “Seventh Satire” (“Reheated cabbage kills teachers”) in reference to unimaginative writing, from Greek krámbē “cabbage”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of crambo1
C17: from earlier crambe, probably from Latin crambē repetīta cabbage repeated, hence an old story, a rhyming game, from Greek krambē
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Example Sentences
It was like a game of dumb crambo, as Peter acted a word, and the old lady tried to guess his meaning.
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Mrs. Campbell began as usual to talk baby language, and play a kind of Dumb Crambo at him.
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The few works which treat on the subject have all become as obselete as “hot cockles” and “crambo.”
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Mary says in her second letter: We had a tremendous fit of Crambo again last night from eight to eleven without stopping.
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Sir Guy nearly died of Crambo, and was very near taking a Dictionary with him the next time.
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