Cumberworld
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cumberworld is a noun meaning (derogatory, obsolete) Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world; a useless person or thing.
Meaning
(derogatory, obsolete) Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world; a useless person or thing.
Example Sentences
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.
His pouch was now all void and empty, his future years were like to be sour, thoughty, and woe-begone, and himself a cumberworld, unsicker of his scarce and slender livelihood in lickpenny London, forced to beg, steal, or starve, and gaping after honest death.
Word Forms
- cumberworlds
- cumber-world
Synonyms for cumberworld
Depending on context, synonyms include cumberground.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cumber-world, cumberground, cumberer, cumbucket, custron, cuntfucker.
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