What does crambo mean?
Definitions for crambo
ˈkræm boʊcram·bo
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Wiktionary
crambonoun
A guessing game in which players guess words that rhyme with a clue word, seeking a word that is kept secret or concealed.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Crambonoun
a cant word, A play at which one gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme; a rhyme.
Etymology: probably without etymology.
So Mævius, when he drain’d his skull
To celebrate some suburb trull,
His similes in order set,
And ev’ry crambo he could get. Jonathan Swift.
Wikipedia
Crambo
Crambo is a rhyming game which, according to Joseph Strutt, was played as early as the 14th century under the name of the ABC of Aristotle. It is also known as capping the rhyme. The name may also be used to describe a doggerel poem which exhausts the possible rhymes with a particular word. In the days of the Stuarts it was very popular, and is frequently mentioned in the writings of the time. Thus William Congreve's 1695 play Love for Love, i. 1, contains the passage,"Get the Maids to Crambo in an Evening, and learn the knack of Rhyming."
Webster Dictionary
Cramboadjective
a game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme
Cramboadjective
a word rhyming with another word
Etymology: [Cf. Cramp, a., difficult.]
Wikidata
Crambo
Crambo is a rhyming game which, according to Joseph Strutt, was played as early as the fourteenth century under the name of the ABC of Aristotle. It is also known as Capping the rhyme. The name may also be used to describe a doggerel poem which exhausts the possible rhymes with a particular word. In the days of the Stuarts it was very popular, and is frequently mentioned in the writings of the time. Thus in William Congreve's play of 1695 Love for Love, i. 1, contains the passage, "Get the Maids to Crambo in an Evening, and learn the knack of Rhyming."
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Crambo
kram′bo, n. a game in which one gives a word to which another finds a rhyme: rime.—ns. Cram′boclink, -jingle, riming. [Prob. from L. crambe repetita, cabbage served up again.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of crambo in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of crambo in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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