Crambo is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 138 anagrams from letters in crambo (abcmor).
1600-10; earlier crambe Latin crambē repetīta phrase used by Juvenal in reference to unimaginative writing, literally, repeated (i.e., re-served) cabbage (Greek krambē kind of cabbage)
The few works which treat on the subject have all become as obselete as “hot cockles” and “crambo.”
Mary says in her second letter: We had a tremendous fit of crambo again last night from eight to eleven without stopping.
They talk and laugh together; and many a passion has had its birth in crambo, or the little box of amourettes.
crambo, kram′bo, n. a game in which one gives a word to which another finds a rhyme: rime.
He looked up for a moment, then gave a low whistle, and crambo again set out on his rounds.
Sir Guy nearly died of crambo, and was very near taking a Dictionary with him the next time.
The game of crambo, in which each player has to write a noun on one piece of paper, and a question on 304 another, is curious.
Query, What is the meaning of crambo here, and is it to be met with elsewhere with a similar meaning?
Crabbe says, "crambo is a play, in rhyming, in which he that repeats a word that was said before forfeits something."
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