Hypertext Webster Gateway: "crambo"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Crambo \Cram"bo\ (-b[-o]), n. [Cf. {Cramp}, a., difficult.]
1. A game in which one person gives a word, to which another
finds a rhyme.

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. --Addison.

2. A word rhyming with another word.

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

{Dumb crambo}, a game in which one party of players give a
word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed
by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what
they think it to be.


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