CRAMBO - Friday, January 13, 2017

 

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Definitions for crambo

1. inferior rhyme.
2. a game in which one person or side must find a rhyme to a word or a line of verse given by another.

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Citations for crambo

"Then your worship understands crambo?" said the squire. "Better than you imagine, answered the knight, as you will see when you carry from me a letter to my mistress Dulcinea del Toboso, written in verse from top to bottom ...Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), The Adventures of Don Quixote, translated by Tobias Smollett, 1755

The portraits on the sordid walls were very like the crambo in the minds of ordinary men--very like the motley pictures of the FAMOUS hung up in your parlour, O my Public!Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life, 1853

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SOMEONE STOLE MY PENGUIN!

WHAT KIND OF FUCKING NEIGHBORHOOD IS THIS?!

WHAT KIND OF FUCKING MUTTS ARE YOU FUCKING PEOPLE FUCKING UP?!

FAITH A GIFT I HAVE YET TO RECEIVE?!

OR

FAITH A GIFT I REFUSE TO ACCEPT?!