CRAMBO


Meaning of CRAMBO in English

/kram"boh/ , n. , pl. cramboes .

1. a game in which one person or side must find a rhyme to a word or a line of verse given by another.

2. inferior rhyme.

[ 1600-10; earlier crambe crambe repetita phrase used by Juvenal in reference to unimaginative writing, lit., repeated (i.e., re-served) cabbage ( krambe kind of cabbage) ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .