crambo

American  

[kram-boh] / ˈkræm boʊ /

noun

• cramboes
  plural

1. a game in which one person or side must find a rhyme to a word or a line of verse given by another.

2. inferior rhyme.

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crambo British  

/ ˈkræmbəʊ /

noun

1. 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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cramboes
  plural

Etymology

Origin of crambo

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”

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

crambo

Oh and we have musical evenings on Sundays; sometimes we play dumb crambo.

From Love's Shadow by Ada Leverson

Brian was good at everything—charades, clumps, consequences, dumb crambo.

From The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

He has written on his slate, 'Will you play crambo?'

From Miss Prudence A Story of Two Girls' Lives. by Jennie (Drinkwater) Conklin Maria

After it, the whole family played at 'dumb crambo.'

From The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte Mary Yonge

The portraits on the sordid walls were very like the crambo in the minds of ordinary men—very like the motley pictures of the Famous hung up in your parlour, O my Public!

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various