Cumberground

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈkÊŒm.bÉ™.ɡɹaÊŠnd/
• US IPA: /ˈkÊŒm.bÉš.ɡɹaÊŠnd/
• Rhymes: -aÊŠnd

Alternative forms

• cumber-ground
• cumber ground

Origin

cumber + ground

Full definition of cumberground

Noun

1. (obsolete) Any totally worthless object or person; something that is just in the way.
• 1927, Henry William Wolff, Co-operation in India, p. 285,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.

Related terms

• cumbersome
• cumbrous
• encumbrance