crambo
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A game in which one person or side has to find a rhyme to a word which is given by another, or to form a couplet by matching with a line another line already given, the new line being composed of words not used in the other.
- verb To rhyme as in the game of crambo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun A word rhyming with another word.
Examples
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From the day when Dorris Kincaid had come over with the gray glass vase and her repeated thanks, when the flowers had done their ministry and faded, there had been little simple courtesies, each way, between the opposite houses; and once Kenneth and his sister had taken tea with the Ripwinkleys, and they had played 'crambo' and 'consequences' in the evening.
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We finished the evening with music and dumb crambo -- that particularly English form of amusement, which I have never seen well done except by English people.
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She thought of her work, the skewed meter of putty and junk, the crambo clink, she thought of rust rot and wadded cotton batting.
Note
This word comes from the Latin phrase 'crambe repetita,' warmed-over cabbage, said of pedestrian writing.
