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Definition of Crambo
1. n. A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.
Definition of Crambo
1. Noun. A guessing game in which players guess words that rhyme with a clue word, seeking a word that is kept secret or concealed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crambo
1. a word game [n -BOS or -BOES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crambo
Literary usage of Crambo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"crambo. Twould have some then : there was a fray here last day in this shop. ...
crambo. I beseech you, sir; we mistook our marks; deliver us our weapons. ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"... to court the cook in rhime ; Or {if he strives true patriots to disgrace) May
at the second table get a place, And play at crambo o'er his gill of wine. ..."
3. The Modern Dunciad: Virgil in London and Other Poems by George Daniel (1835)
"crambo. 'TWAS in that glorious season of the year, When leaves are green, ...
with joyful hearts they found The tuneful crambo prostrate on the ground. ..."
4. Historical and Biographical Essays by John Forster (1858)
"He might have added that the Lord Protector had himself a taste for innocent and
cheerful recreation; that he had no objection to play at crambo, ..."
5. Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald: Including Her Familiar Correspondence with the by James Boaden (1833)
"CHAPTER I. The Priory at Stanmore again—Its amusements; crambo—There again on
Good Friday—Dr. Howley—George Robinson buys her ' Nature and Art'—More Long ..."
6. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"crambo. Twould have some then : there was a fray here last day in this shop. ...
crambo. I beseech you, sir; we mistook our marks; deliver us our weapons. ..."
7. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"... to court the cook in rhime ; Or {if he strives true patriots to disgrace) May
at the second table get a place, And play at crambo o'er his gill of wine. ..."
8. The Modern Dunciad: Virgil in London and Other Poems by George Daniel (1835)
"crambo. 'TWAS in that glorious season of the year, When leaves are green, ...
with joyful hearts they found The tuneful crambo prostrate on the ground. ..."
9. Historical and Biographical Essays by John Forster (1858)
"He might have added that the Lord Protector had himself a taste for innocent and
cheerful recreation; that he had no objection to play at crambo, ..."
10. Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald: Including Her Familiar Correspondence with the by James Boaden (1833)
"CHAPTER I. The Priory at Stanmore again—Its amusements; crambo—There again on
Good Friday—Dr. Howley—George Robinson buys her ' Nature and Art'—More Long ..."
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