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crambo

[ kram-boh ]

noun

plural cramboes.
  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.


crambo

/ 藞办谤忙尘产蓹蕣 /

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
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of crambo1

First recorded in 1600鈥10; earlier crambe < Latin cramb膿 repet墨ta 鈥渃abbage reheated, re-served,鈥 a phrase used in Juvenal's 鈥淪eventh Satire鈥 (鈥淩eheated cabbage kills teachers鈥) in reference to unimaginative writing, from Greek 办谤谩尘产脓 鈥渃补产产补驳别鈥
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of crambo1

C17: from earlier crambe, probably from Latin cramb膿 repet墨ta cabbage repeated, hence an old story, a rhyming game, from Greek 办谤补尘产脓
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So Blind Man's Buff was given up and something quieter tried鈥擠umb Crambo, I think.

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If the Moslem must have tribute, make men your tribute-money, Send idle drones to tease them within their hives of honey, is the commonest of crambo, and Must go, like all the others, the proud Moor鈥檚 bed to sleep in鈥 In all the rest they鈥檙e useless, and nowise worth the keeping, is reminiscent of the pantomime days of our youth.

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Crambo, kram鈥瞓o, n. a game in which one gives a word to which another finds a rhyme: rime.鈥攏s.

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Things look their most unexpected, masquerade as other things, get queer unintelligible allegoric meanings, leaving you to guess what it all means, a constant dumb crambo of trees, flowers, animals, houses, and moonlight.

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

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