crambo
[ kram-boh ]
/ ˈkræm boʊ /
noun, plural cram·boes.
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.
Origin of crambo
1600–10; earlier
crambe < Latin
crambē
repetīta phrase used by Juvenal in reference to unimaginative writing, literally, repeated (i.e., re-served) cabbage (< Greek
krambē kind of cabbage)
Words nearby crambo
crakow,
cram,
cram course,
cram school,
cram-full,
crambo,
cramer's rule,
crammer,
cramoisy,
cramp,
cramp ball
Example sentences from the Web for crambo
British Dictionary definitions for crambo
crambo
/ (ˈkræmbəʊ) /
noun
a word game in which one team says a rhyme or rhyming line for a word or line given by the other team
Word Origin for crambo
C17: from earlier
crambe, probably from Latin
crambē repetīta cabbage repeated, hence an old story, a rhyming game, from Greek
krambē