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cumberworld

noun

Etymology

From Middle English combre-world, combreworldes pl, from the phrase *combren the world; equivalent to cumber + world.

  1. inherited from combre-world

Definitions

  1. Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world

    Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world; a useless person or thing.

    • A cumber-world, yet in the world am left, / A fruitles plot, with brambles ouergrowne, / Miſliued man of my vvorlds ioy bereft, / Hart-breaking cares the ofspring of my mone.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cumberworld. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA