crambo

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A guessing game in which players guess words that rhyme with a clue word, seeking a word that is kept secret or concealed. uncountable
    — 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. A word rhyming with another word. countable
    — His similes in order set And every crambo he could get.

词形变化

crambos plural cramboes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
crambo-clink crambo-jingle dumb crambo

词源

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