crambo

English

Etymology

• Perhaps related to cramp (“difficult”) (adjective).
• Perhaps from Latin crambe repetita (“cabbage served up again”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æmbəʊ

Noun

crambo (countable and uncountable, plural crambos or cramboes)

1. (uncountable) A guessing game in which players guess words that rhyme with a clue word, seeking a word that is kept secret or concealed.
   • Joseph Addison

     I saw in one corner […] a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes […] which raised a great deal of mirth.

2. (countable) A word rhyming with another word.
   • Jonathan Swift

     His similes in order set
     And every crambo he could get.

Derived terms

• dumb crambo

Anagrams

• Cambro-, cambro, comarb