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English
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Etymology
From Middle English combre-world, combreworldes pl, from the phrase *combren the world; equivalent to cumber + world.
Noun
cumberworld (plural cumberworlds)
- (derogatory, obsolete) Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world; a useless person or thing.
- Synonym: cumberground
1593, Michael Drayton, “The Second Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, , London: for Thomas Woodcocke, , →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Idea the Shepheards Garland, , 1870, →OCLC, page 6: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.
1894, James Hamilton Wylie, History of England under Henry the Fourth, volume 2, pages 22–23: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.
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