cumber-world
See also: cumberworld
English
Noun
cumber-world (plural cumber-worlds)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of cumberworld
Middle English
Noun
cumber-world
- (derogatory) cumberworld; a useless person or thing; someone who is an encumbrance on the world.
- c. 1385, Chaucer, Geoffrey, Troilus and Criseyde, lines 279–280:
- I, combre-world, that may of nothyng serve, / But evere dye and nevere fulli sterve.
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- c. 1412, Hoccleve, Thomas, A Lament for Chaucer, lines 35–38; republished in Pancoast, Henry Spackman; Spaeth, John Duncan Ernst, editors, Early English Poems, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911, page 242:
- Thou followedst sure, this men know well enow, / That cumber-world, that thee, my master slow, / I would were slain! death went too hastily / To run on thee, and rive thy life of thee.
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