cumberworld

Definitions

Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world; a useless person or thing.

derogatory, obsolete

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level