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cumber-ground

cumber-ground is the alternative spelling of cumberground.

Meaning of cumberground

Noun

cumberground (plural cumbergrounds)

  1. (obsolete) Any totally worthless object or person; something that is just in the way.
    • 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.1927, Henry William Wolff, Co-operation in India, page 285
    Synonyms:
    cumberworld

Questions about cumber-ground

What is cumber-ground the alternative spelling of?
Cumber-ground is the alternative spelling of cumberground.

Words near cumber-ground in the dictionary

  1. Cumbees
  2. cumbent
  3. cumber
  4. cumber ground
  5. cumber grounds
  6. cumber-ground
  7. cumber-world
  8. cumber-worlds
  9. Cumberbabe
  10. Cumberbabes
  11. Cumberbabies

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