crambo-jingle

crambo-jingle
cramˈboclink or crambo-jinˈgle noun (Burns)
Rhyming doggerel
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Main Entry:crambo

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  • crambo jingle — noun see crambo clink …   Useful english dictionary

  • Crambo — is an old rhyming game which, according to Strutt,[1] was played as early as the fourteenth century under the name of the ABC of Aristotle. It is also known as Capping the rhyme. The name may also be used to describe a doggerel poem which… …   Wikipedia

  • crambo clink — noun or crambo jingle Scotland : doggerel, crambo …   Useful english dictionary

  • jingle — v tinkle, tink, ding, ding dong, ring, chime, tintinnabulate; clink, chink, jangle, clang, clangor, clank; rattle, shake, vibrate. n 2. tinkle, tinkling, ting, tinging, ringing, ding, ding dong, chime, chiming, tintinnabulation; clink, clinking,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • alliteration — Synonyms and related words: assonance, blank verse, chime, clink, consonance, crambo, dingdong, double rhyme, drone, eye rhyme, harping, humdrum, jingle, jingle jangle, monotone, monotony, near rhyme, paronomasia, pitter patter, pun, repeated… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • assonance — Synonyms and related words: alliteration, blank verse, chime, clink, consonance, crambo, dingdong, double rhyme, drone, eye rhyme, harping, humdrum, jingle, jingle jangle, monotone, monotony, near rhyme, paronomasia, pitter patter, pun, repeated… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • clink — Synonyms and related words: alliteration, assonance, blank verse, bump, calaboose, can, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, chokey, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, click, clop, clump, clunk, consonance, cooler, coop, crambo, crump,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • rhyme — Synonyms and related words: English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, accord, alba, alliterate, alliteration, anacreontic, assonance, assonate, balada, ballad, ballade, beat …   Moby Thesaurus

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