crambo
Americannoun
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a game in which one person or side must find a rhyme to a word or a line of verse given by another.
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inferior rhyme.
noun
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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
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The nourishing all-natural blend contains argan and crambe abyssinica oils and real coffee beans.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2021
The crops are barley, buckwheat, canola, chickpea, corn, crambe, dry bean, dry pea, flax, lentil, proso millet, safflower, soybeans, sorghum, spring wheat, sunflower and winter wheat.
From Time Magazine Archive
He must have a very strong stomach that can digest the crambe recocta of Voltaire.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
The eagle business would be the merest crambe repetita.” p.
From The Casual Ward academic and other oddments by Godley, A. D. (Alfred Denis)
The primo amoroso served up the crambe decies repetita of his monologues.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
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