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gombeen Anglo-Irish.|gɒmˈbiːn|
[a. mod. Irish gaimbín; according to Stokes (in Fick Vergl. Wb. II. 79) repr. a derivative of OCeltic *km̥bion, whence med.L. cambium: see change.]
Usury. Chiefly attrib., as gombeen-man, a money-lender, usurer; so also gombeen-woman. Hence gomˈbeenism, the practice of borrowing or lending at usury.
1862H. Coulter West Irel. 197 Shop keepers, Gombeen men, and others to whom they have become indebted. Ibid. 201 Possessed of some hundreds of pounds each, which they lend out at Gombeen. 1882Times 20 July 9/3 The bank..in Ireland, is often little more than a glorified gombeen-man. 1886Contemp. Rev. Apr. 504 The evil of ‘gombeenism’ which has always been so prevalent in the poorer districts of Ireland. 1894Hall Caine Manxman 320 She was a gombeen woman. |