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Encyclopedia Britannica



CRAMBO

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 363 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CRAMBO , an old rhyming
game
  which, according to Strutt (Sports and Pastimes), was played as early as the 14th
century
  under the name of the ABC of
Aristotle
 . In the days of the Stuarts it was very popular, and is frequently mentioned in the writings of the time. Thus
Congreve
 's Love for Love, i. 1, contains the passage, " Get the Maids to Crambo in an Evening, and learn the knack of Rhiming." Crambo, or capping the rhyme, is now played by one player thinking of a word and telling the others what it rhymes with, the others not naming the actual word they guess but its meaning. Thus one says " I know a word that rhymes with
bird
 ." A second asks "Is it ridiculous?" "No, it is not absurd." "Is it a
part
  of speech ? " " No, it is not a word." This proceeds until the right word is guessed.
In Dumb Crambo the guessers, instead of naming the word, express its meaning by dumb show, a rhyme being given them as a clue.


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