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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

/ ˈæəʊ /

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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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