E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Crambo.
Repetition. So called from a game which consists in some one setting a line which another is to rhyme to, but no one word of the first line must occur in the second.
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Dumb crambo. Pantomime of a word in rhyme to a given word. Thus if “cat” is the given word, the pantomimists would act Bat, Fat, Hat, Mat, Pat, Rat, Sat, etc., till the word acted is guessed.
