Meanings
comparative more money-grubbing · superlative most money-grubbing · alternative moneygrubbing · alternative money-grabbing
- derogatoryFiercely avaricious for money.
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[.]
1768, John Cleland, The Woman of Honor, volume 3, page 96
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From money and grub (“to search for by digging in soil or dirt”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 貪錢 /贪钱
- 貪錢 /贪钱fiercely avaricious for money
Tagalog mukhang pera
- mukhang perafiercely avaricious for money
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