crambo

He found enjoyment in playing the intellectual rhyming game crambo with his peers.

Crambo tells Fustigo to wait in a nearby tavern while the beating is carried out.

Crambo naturally mistakes Candido for George and strikes him with a club.

Crambo] a word game in which one has to answer a line with another that rhymes; here Boswell plays it by himself.

A Crambo Song on losing my Mistress.

After this inspired piece of sexual dumb crambo, the rest of the carbaret was an anticlimax.

Crambo and Poh enter the shop.

Crambo and Poh cry for mercy.

These books are: Crambo, Mills, and No Earth for Foxes.

Crambo in the nineteenth century became a word game in which one player would think of a word and tell the others what it rhymes with.

The apprentices enter and apprehend Crambo and Poh with ease.

Regardless, Fielding was personally mocked as Crambo, one of the characters within the play, and was offended by the portrayal.

It resembles the Malayalam Aksharaslokam and, more generally, the British Crambo.

He played roles of varying importance in three novels, Crambo, Mills, and No Earth for Foxes.

Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a frequent Dumb Crambo player with his wife and daughters in their North London home.

CRAMBE, game of crambo, in which the players find rhymes for a given word.

Reedy-Wife of Crambo the basketmaker appears to be a friend of Muggles before she is outlawed.

In 1763 candidates Lord Twankum, Kit Noisy and Sir John Crambo mocked each other in electoral contest.

Crambo is a rhyming game which, according to Joseph Strutt, was played as early as the fourteenth century under the name of the ABC of Aristotle.

In Dumb Crambo the guessers, instead of trying to name the rhyme being given them as a clue, express its meaning by acting the word without speaking in the manner of charades.

One of Crambo's more famous devotees, Robert Burns (1759-1796), wrote: "Amaist as soon as I could spell, / I to the crambo-jingle fell."

One Crambo poem from Boswell is rhymed around "the Laird of Craigubble," a fellow Crambo player.

"Formal drinking" is usually played after dinner and is more and more coming to take the place of charades, sleight-of-hand performances, magic lantern shows, "dumb crambo," et cetera, as the parlor amusement par excellence.

To get revenge for the beating he received at the hands of Candido's servants, Fustigo pays the bravoes Crambo and Poh to give Candido's servant George a sound beating.

Jack Hurst, a Cambridge undergraduate on the daytime television show Countdown - the longest-running game since Parmisant, Upsey-Freezey or Dumb Crambo - was presented with the letters DTCEIASHF.