wasteground
English
Etymology
waste + ground
Noun
wasteground (uncountable)
- A barren stretch of ground; wasteland.
- 1979, Aleksandr Zinoviev, The Yawning Heights
- But the wasteground was already cleared. So the workers resolved to give up a Monday to voluntary labour to scatter rubbish all over it.
- 1994, D W Hartnett, Black Milk
- He was crawling across the wasteground on the far side of the perimeter fence.
- 1979, Aleksandr Zinoviev, The Yawning Heights