cumberworld
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world; a useless person or thing.
Derogatory; Obsolete
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."
Etymology
From Middle English combre-world, combreworldes pl, from the phrase *combren the world; equivalent to cumber + world.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: combre-world