cumberground
See also: cumber-ground and cumber ground
English
WOTD – 6 August 2008
Alternative forms
- cumber-ground
- cumber ground
Etymology
cumber + ground, in reference to the Bible, Luke 13:7.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkʌm.bə.ɡɹaʊnd/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkʌm.bɚ.ɡɹaʊnd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aʊnd
Noun
cumberground (plural cumbergrounds)
- (obsolete) Any totally worthless object or person; something that is just in the way.
- 1927, Henry William Wolff, Co-operation in India, page 285:
- Give a man money, and he may sit down upon it and spend it, or live upon the interest which it will yield in idleness, a mere cumberground and drone, from whose life the world derives no benefit.
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Synonyms
- cumberworld
Related terms
- cumbersome
- cumbrous
- encumbrance
Translations
totally worthless object or person
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