moneymonger

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

money +‎ monger

Noun[edit]

moneymonger (plural moneymongers)

  1. A moneylender; a usurer.
    • 1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, France, published 1955 (France), page 142:
      Marion said they ought to let the sitting room and it would pay half the rent. She wasn't going to slip back into poverty again and be hounded day in and out by lecherous moneymongers. Sebastian volunteered putting in the ad, on condition that they rent to a Catholic.
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