money-grubbing
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See also: moneygrubbing
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From money and grub (“to search for by digging in soil or dirt”).
Adjective[edit]
money-grubbing (comparative more money-grubbing, superlative most money-grubbing)
- Fiercely avaricious for money.
- 1768, John Cleland, The Woman of Honor, volume 3, page 96:
- Nor will you think this ſtrange, when I tell you, that, take him out of his rote of official buſtle, and the jargon of Change-alley, he had not an idea beyond that money-grubbing ſphere, and was ſcarce not a born ideot, with a head as contracted as his heart[.]
Translations[edit]
fiercely avaricious for money
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