Meanings
plural cumbergrounds · alternative cumber-ground · alternative cumber ground
- obsoleteAny 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 285Synonyms: cumberworld
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny totally worthless object or person; something that is just in the way.
Origin
From cumber + ground, in reference to the Bible, Luke 13:7.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Estonian kasutu
- kasututotally worthless object or person
Cite this entry
cumberground. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cumberground
“cumberground.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cumberground. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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