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crambo
[ kram-boh ]
noun
plural cramboes.
- 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
/ ˈæəʊ /
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 áŧ “c”
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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 ŧ
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