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cumber | cummer |

As a verb cumber

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

As a noun cummer is

(scotland) the relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child or cummer can be (slang) one who cums or climaxes.

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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    cummer

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * kimmer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) the relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child.
  • (Scotland) a female companion or intimate (of another woman)
  • (Scotland) lass, the feminine equivalent of "fellow"
    • Synonyms
    * commother, co-mother * gossip

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) One who cums or climaxes.
  • * 2013 , David Bergman, The Violet Hour (page 186)
    • In point of fact, Whitmore wasn't just a slow cummer , but rather unable to have an orgasm whenever anyone else was present.