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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

Forms of cumber ground

pluralcumber grounds

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

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