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Cucumber vs Cumber - What's the difference?

cucumber | cumber |

As a noun cucumber

is a vine in the gourd family, cucumis sativus .

As a verb cumber is

(dated) to slow down, to hinder, to burden.

cucumber

English

(wikipedia cucumber)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus .
  • The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.

    • Synonyms

    * cuke (informal)

    Derived terms

    * Armenian cucumber () * cool as a cucumber * exploding cucumber * squirting cucumber

    Related terms

    * (l) (cucumber-shaped)

    See also

    * courgette * gherkin * marrow * pickle * squash * zucchini

    cumber

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cumbre (archaic)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To slow down, to hinder, to burden.
  • * Dryden
    • Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?
  • * John Locke
    • The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, but cumbers the memory.
  • * 1886 , Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel . Pub.: Adams & Charles Black, Edinburgh; page 321:
    • the base villain who murdered this poor defenceless old man, when he had not, by the course of nature, a twelvemonth's life in him, shall not cumber the earth long after him.

    Synonyms

    * encumber

    See also

    *

    Related terms

    * cumbersome * cumbrous * encumbrance * cumberground

    References

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