I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with'great'
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3rolandperkins
"(more than) one syllable " (1)
__ __ __ __ __ has the Spanish for "to go" as
"Its First" and it also has
An English verb for "consumed" as "its
Second". Can you, from these
bits,
Deduce it?
Guess it or lose it.
Its whole = a word said to have no
Rhyme in English, hence my defining is slow!
__ __ __ __ __ has the Spanish for "to go" as
"Its First" and it also has
An English verb for "consumed" as "its
Second". Can you, from these
bits,
Deduce it?
Guess it or lose it.
Its whole = a word said to have no
Rhyme in English, hence my defining is slow!
4rolandperkins
"ʻIts wholeʻ" - a word said to have no rhyme in English
(3)
Iʻm crazy! the meaning doesnʻt have to rhyme!
So the above, is not worth a dime,
after all! And I should, in fact, define,
So Iʻll say being __ __ __ __ __ is a sign
Of being angry -- or is it-
self = to "angry". Have I hit
On a definition?
If not -- further fishinʻ.
(3)
Iʻm crazy! the meaning doesnʻt have to rhyme!
So the above, is not worth a dime,
after all! And I should, in fact, define,
So Iʻll say being __ __ __ __ __ is a sign
Of being angry -- or is it-
self = to "angry". Have I hit
On a definition?
If not -- further fishinʻ.
5oldstick
I don't know Spanish and I'm trying to play without using the internet.
Not accelerate,irate.
Am I doing this correctly,boys?
Not accelerate,irate.
Am I doing this correctly,boys?
6rolandperkins
"Am I doing this correctly, boys?" -- (5)
Yes.
Yes.
9rodneyvc
Its really up to you as to when you convey, tell, impart, or relay further information to us.
10rolandperkins
IF a quality is in one right from birth,
IT doesnʻt mean that quality is worth
More than an acquired one, but at least we can say
"It is __ __ __ __ __ __."
Pray accept this guess, along with a spate
Of other guesses, still to come, no doubt,
Until someone has figured the Crambo! Word out.
IT doesnʻt mean that quality is worth
More than an acquired one, but at least we can say
"It is __ __ __ __ __ __."
Pray accept this guess, along with a spate
Of other guesses, still to come, no doubt,
Until someone has figured the Crambo! Word out.
12rolandperkins
In Britain and Northern Ireland an "__ __ __ __ __ __" means an undesirable place to live, approximately = to a U. S. "housing project"
In the U. S., it means property in general, especially
property at the time of death,
OR:* a particular piece of property (usually a VERY desireable one).
*I suppose it can have this meaning in Britain, too.
In the U. S., it means property in general, especially
property at the time of death,
OR:* a particular piece of property (usually a VERY desireable one).
*I suppose it can have this meaning in Britain, too.
14Jim53
// Looking back at number eight,
// If ain't too early, could the word be "late"?
// But let me hush this useless babble:
// The word has more than one syllable.
New guess: someone did this to three Bohemian Catholic regents a while back, leading to thirty yucky years.
// If ain't too early, could the word be "late"?
// But let me hush this useless babble:
// The word has more than one syllable.
New guess: someone did this to three Bohemian Catholic regents a while back, leading to thirty yucky years.
15rolandperkins
Hyphenated and maybe even TWO
Words is "__ __ __ __ - __ __ __ __ __" Did you
Know Arthur Schlesinger was the first to use this adjectival
Designation for the noted 1948 rival
Of Tom Dewey as, historically, that kind of prez,
He being, as Schlesinger sez,
Just behind the just plain "__ __ __ __ __s", like Lincoln
So that ancient history affected my thinkinʻ,
Even if it hasnʻt been much agreed-
With. Can you follow this lead?
Words is "__ __ __ __ - __ __ __ __ __" Did you
Know Arthur Schlesinger was the first to use this adjectival
Designation for the noted 1948 rival
Of Tom Dewey as, historically, that kind of prez,
He being, as Schlesinger sez,
Just behind the just plain "__ __ __ __ __s", like Lincoln
So that ancient history affected my thinkinʻ,
Even if it hasnʻt been much agreed-
With. Can you follow this lead?
16oldstick
Jim, you didn't think I'd give you the whole word, did you? Was yours decapitate?
Roland, this will take a bit of time - I'll be back later.
Roland, this will take a bit of time - I'll be back later.
17Jim53
Decapitate is close for #14--right first letter and number of syllables. Think Prague, 1618.
18rolandperkins
I might as well admit that
15 was "near-great", now that I see it canʻt be right,
as the Crambo! Word has
4 syllables --assuming 17 is correct.
15 was "near-great", now that I see it canʻt be right,
as the Crambo! Word has
4 syllables --assuming 17 is correct.
19Jim53
No, Roland, I was just saying that her guess of my word had the correct number of syllables. I think all we know about the Crambo word is that it's more than one syllable, plus the mysterious clue in #8.
20oldstick
You are right about the number of syllables and if I say it's a verb that's enough clues. I'll come back to yours, Jim. Glad Roland told me what he was thinking. I had lightweight or heavyweight in mind until I checked your spaces!
21oldstick
Time I reprised the wrong guesses, I think.
Not accelerate,irate,accomodate,innate,masticate,salivate,estate..
nor decapitate,discriminate,disseminate, depopulate.
Have I missed out any? I'm not good at the historical references and may feel obliged to use the internet to find the answers - but I won't use any rhyming sites.
Ahh - not defenestrate.
Not accelerate,irate,accomodate,innate,masticate,salivate,estate..
nor decapitate,discriminate,disseminate, depopulate.
Have I missed out any? I'm not good at the historical references and may feel obliged to use the internet to find the answers - but I won't use any rhyming sites.
Ahh - not defenestrate.
22Jim53
I hope we won't have to bully the answer out of you.
(Defenestrate is right for #14. well done)
(Defenestrate is right for #14. well done)
28oldstick
Not accelerate,irate, accomodate,innate,masticate,estate,discriminate,disseminate,depopulate,defenestrate, salivate,intimidate or any words that don't end in 'late.'
30oldstick
And you are getting nearer the meaning, but I am still puzzling over#29. It can't be correlate, too short. Meanwhile, as it is Valentines Day tomorrow I am sending you all an x.
32Jim53
Re #29, they're just piling up all over the place. It does end in "late," but there's no x involved. Your generous x does remind me of one of my favorite old Calvin and Hobbes strips, where Calvin is doing his math homework.
Calvin: A bushel is four pecks. What's a peck?
Hobbes: A quick smooch.
Calvin: I will never understand math.
Calvin: A bushel is four pecks. What's a peck?
Hobbes: A quick smooch.
Calvin: I will never understand math.
33oldstick
I guess it's accumulate. Wrong but a lovely word. Someone once asked foreigners what the most beautiful word in the English language was and I remember it was something with a very mundane meaning but not the actual answer.'Accumulate' must be in the top ten!
You are getting warmer all the time, and that isn't a clue. I'm off out now but I'll come back when I have worked out #31. Got it - perambulate? Sorry, not that either.
You are getting warmer all the time, and that isn't a clue. I'm off out now but I'll come back when I have worked out #31. Got it - perambulate? Sorry, not that either.
34rodneyvc
I must express my disapproval in the strongest possible terms at the hiatus in Crambo!
// :-) (BTW, I didn't spot that #33 had been updated with the correct answer to #31!)
// :-) (BTW, I didn't spot that #33 had been updated with the correct answer to #31!)
35Jim53
On the other hand, seeing it revived gives me a happy feeling of great excitement, as if I were riding a roller coaster.
36rolandperkins
Leaving aside the Steinbrenner vs. Martin gyrations of the 1970s,
only 2 ML managers* have ever been__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ed
in a job that they previously lost.
*Charley Grimm by Chicago (NL); and Mike Higgins by Boston (AL)
only 2 ML managers* have ever been__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ed
in a job that they previously lost.
*Charley Grimm by Chicago (NL); and Mike Higgins by Boston (AL)
37oldstick
Not accelerate, irate,accomodate,innate,masticate,estate, discriminate,disseminate, depopulate, defenestrate, accumulate, perambulate, exhilarate or reinstate.( but that doesn't start with 'ex' so it may be wrong.)
38rodneyvc
#34 was actually a clue, not really me being grumpy!
Please don't infer from my behaviour the nature of the Crambo population as a whole!
Please don't infer from my behaviour the nature of the Crambo population as a whole!
39rolandperkins
The old-time managers I mentioned in Number
36 used to (not to encumber
You with too much verbiage), __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Me by their strategies, but, of late,
I have fondmemories of them, and am still
Glad to hear of them again; I will
Always think of them fondly, fail-
-ures though they sometimes were. Nail
This one, and you've got a Latinate
(and it really does rhyme with "great"
Or at least with the last syll-
-able thereof) verb that is in more common use
Than most tetrayllables. Did I confuse
Anyone with this clue? It means: "irritate",
"Make a bad situation into a fate
Even worse than it already was".
I'm exiting. You can hold the applause.
36 used to (not to encumber
You with too much verbiage), __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Me by their strategies, but, of late,
I have fondmemories of them, and am still
Glad to hear of them again; I will
Always think of them fondly, fail-
-ures though they sometimes were. Nail
This one, and you've got a Latinate
(and it really does rhyme with "great"
Or at least with the last syll-
-able thereof) verb that is in more common use
Than most tetrayllables. Did I confuse
Anyone with this clue? It means: "irritate",
"Make a bad situation into a fate
Even worse than it already was".
I'm exiting. You can hold the applause.
40oldstick
Now I'm in confusion. You both seem to be suggesting something like infuriate, or maybe exasperate, but I've given you so much help and neither fit the bill! You have the first two and the last four letters, just fill in the middle.
#38 has in it a word that could be part of a correct definition. Can you give me an alternative because I think you may be right?
#38 has in it a word that could be part of a correct definition. Can you give me an alternative because I think you may be right?
41rolandperkins
39 -- 40:
"Exasperate" is right, for the guess of 39.
"Exasperate" is right, for the guess of 39.
42rodneyvc
#40 One sense of #38 is to extend the application of a conclusion to an unknown situation by assuming that existing trends will continue or similar methods will be applicable.
#34 also fits your criteria, and means to express strong disapproval or disagreement, but is clearly not the Crambo word.
#34 also fits your criteria, and means to express strong disapproval or disagreement, but is clearly not the Crambo word.
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