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cumbrous

[ kuhm-bruhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

First recorded in 1325–75, cumbrous is from the Middle English word cumberous. See cumber, -ous

They were resting on their cumbrous belongings, strange groups, unkempt and half dressed.

May not the construction be better taken as a simple, though to our ears cumbrous, inversion of, So I heard them not?

The drawer shuffled to the other windows and opened the shutters with a cumbrous slipping of bolts.

Its forms are too cumbrous for regularly recurring expressions, subjected at once to the laws of metre and rhyme.

Here and there about the yard, also, stand cumbrous cribs for fodder, at which two cows can feed at once.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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