cumberground
nounUK /ˈkʌm.bə.ɡɹaʊnd/ · US /ˈkʌm.bɚ.ɡɹaʊnd/
Etymology From cumber + ground, in reference to the Bible, Luke 13:7.
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
- Related terms
- cumbersome, cumbrous, encumbrance