greedyadj.

Brit.

/ˈɡriːdi/, U.S.

/ˈɡridi/

Forms: Old English grǽdig, Middle English gradi, grady, Middle English–1500s gredi, Middle English grediȝ, Middle English gredie, Middle English–1600s gredy, 1500s greadye, 1500s Scottish grydy, 1500s–1600s greedie, 1500s– greedy.

Etymology: Old English grǽdig = Old Saxon grádag, Old High German grâtag, Old Norse gráðug-r (Old Swedish grådig, Danish graadig), Gothic grédags < Old Germanic *græ̂đago-, -ugo-, < *græ̂đu-z (Gothic grêdu-s hunger, Old Norse gráð-r hunger, greed, Old English grǽd in dative plural grǽdum eagerly), cognate with Sanskrit grdh to be greedy.

a. Having an intense desire or inordinate appetite for food or drink; ravenous, voracious, gluttonous. †In some of the earlier quots. the meaning is simply: Hungry. Const. of (Old English genitive); †also after, on, upon, (for) to have something (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [adjective] > having (good) appetite > greedy or voracious

yevereOE

greedy971

reavingOE

fretewil?c1225

ravissantc1300

ravishingc1350

ravenous?1387

raveningc1390

ravisablea1425

eating1483

yeverous1483

savourousa1492

yevery1531

vorax1535

gluttonisha1586

falconish1587

ravin1615

vulturous1623

ravened1627

gorb?1635

esurine1687

voracious1693

gastrolatrous1694

tigerantica1704

gutsy1803

bulimious1816

polyphagian1825

yevrisome1825

edacious1829

polyphagous1837

tigerocious1874

bulimic1886

hyperphagic1943

971 Blickl. Hom. 211 Þa fynd..heora gripende wæron swa swa grædig wulf.

OE Beowulf 121 Wiht unhælo, grim ond grædig, gearo sona wæs, reoc ond reþe.

a1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 216 Þam grædigan fisce, þe gesihð þæt æs, and ne gesihð ðone angel ðe on ðam æse sticað.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 123 Þenne bið he gredi þes eses and forswoleȝeð þene hoc forð mid þan ese.

c1200 Vices & Virtues (1888) 139 Sobrietas..makeð þanne mann maðfull ðe was to grady.

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 167 Hwen gredi hundes stondeð biuore þe bord.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1494 Iacob wurð war he was gredi.

c1325 Body & Soul 43 in Map's Poems (Camden) 340 Thyne mete..That thou were gredi for to frete.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 398 Two gredy sowes.

1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. iii. 53 The foxe is rauenous, greedie on his pray.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 93 The falling Mast, For greedy Swine, provides a full repast.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 427 He said, and greedy grasp'd the heady bowl.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xiv. 86 Most sorts of Cattle are greedy of it.

1767 T. Hutchinson Hist. Province Massachusets-Bay, 1691–1750 i. 100 As greedy after their prey as a wolf.

1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 96/2 This snake is very greedy of milk.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 180 Greedy hawk must gorge his prey.

figurative.OE Phoenix 507 Weorþeð anra gehwylc forht on ferþþe, þonne fyr briceð læne londwelan, ligeal þigeð eorðan æhtegestreon, æpplede gold gifre forgripeð, grædig swelgeð londes frætwe.1572 G. Gascoigne Dan Bartholmew Hund. Flowers 429 I seeke a greedy graue, To make an ende of all these stormes and strife.1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 9 Coozning the greedie sea, prisning their nimble prey.1656 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa V. iii. ii. 119 I..knew the Vessel was founder'd, had struck, or sprung some greedy Leak.1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. ix. 288 The first fat Off'rings, to th' Immortals due, Amidst the greedy Flames Patroclus threw.1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xv. 158 The..noise of greedy Acheron.1860 B. Taylor Pine Forest Monterey in Poems (1866) 321 Look from the greedy wave.

b. said of the stomach, etc.; also of the appetite. See also greedy-guts n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [adjective] > having (good) appetite > greedy or voracious > of appetite or stomach

greedy1526

ostrich1598

caninal1599

canine1609

voracious1635

angry1673

peckish1714

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. GGiii To stuffe and fyll the gredy gutte of thy bely with delicate metes.

c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kij Theyr gredy gorgys ar rapt with the smell.

1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. Aa4^v Yet soft and fayre: oregreedy jawes Eate not their meale with decent pause.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 211 Her appetite strong and greedy.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxxiv. 290 The stomacke when it is greedy of meate, draweth it selfe vp towardes the throate.

c. said of chemical substances which absorb with avidity. ? Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical properties > [adjective] > of or relating to miscellaneous other properties

sweet1666

nimble1671

watery1741

unvitriolized1757

greedy1758

unneutralized1758

unvitrifiable1758

free1783

fixed1800

nascent1800

inorganic1831

assimilative1837

unnitrogenized1846

inactive1848

kaligenous1854

unacceptant1866

aggressive1888

oligodynamic1893

chromotropic1899

undissociated1899

osmophoric1901

thermochromic1904

unary1923

non-stoichiometric1943

odoriphoric1944

slow-release1946

sonoluminescent1961

uniaxial1965

1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 278 The Acid of the Phosphorus..is very greedy of moisture.

1791 W. Nicholson tr. J. A. C. Chaptal Elements Chem. III. iv. iii. 63 The oil is more drying or greedy of oxigene.

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 194 When the air is very greedy of moisture.

2. Eager for gain, wealth, and the like; avaricious, covetous, rapacious. Const. as in sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [adjective] > inordinately desirous of possessions

greedya1000

overgreedyOE

avarous1303

covetous1340

concupiscible1398

avaricious1474

silver-sick?a1500

lucrous1511

having1528

lucrative1549

concupiscentious1555

holding1569

griping?1573

concupiscential1577

over-havinga1600

gripulous1614

ingordigious1637

concupitive1651

appropriative1655

lucripetous1675

coveting1699

grasping1747

concupiscenta1834

acquisitive1846

pleonectic1858

big-eye1868

wanting1876

possessive1889

grabby1910

gold-digging1925

territorial1966

a1000 Solomon & Saturn 344 Sum to lyt hafað godes grædig.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 105 God nele þet we beon gredie ȝitseras.

a1200 Moral Ode 264 And weren to gredi of solure and of golde.

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 195 Þe deuel is gredi uppen woreld richeise and gredi him to winende.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 304 Ne beo nan þe gredure forto habbe mare.

c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 347 Men seien þat preestis ben moost gredy purchasours in erþe.

c1400 Rom. Rose 5696 An usurer..Shal never for richesse riche bee But..Scarce, and gredy in his entent.

c1500 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 148 Praying that ye wille content unto this bringer, my Cousin Robart Hastings, iiij mark & xxd. now dew unto him at this Martymasse last, which is right gredy therupon.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xxi. 202 A wolvish, greedy, and covetous heart.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 51 That Crop rewards the greedy Peasant's Pains.

1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. ii. 33 Nor is a porter less greedy of money, which he spends on bacon and brandy, than a courtier, who purchases champagne and ortolans.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 209 Unscrupulous and greedy power.

1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. 461 The..exactions of corrupt magistrates, and their greedy officers.

absolute.c1400 Rom. Rose 5791 If these gredy..Loveden, and were loved ageyn..Such wikkidnesse ne shulde falle.

3. In wider sense: Eager, keen; †eagerly active, zealous (obsolete); eagerly or keenly desirous of or †to do (something).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > [adjective]

yernc893

oflisteOE

courageousc1290

eager?a1300

greedya1300

keena1375

affectuousa1400

lickerousc1405

appetentc1420

affectual1483

gasping1517

zealous1531

avidious1534

avidous1542

affectivec1550

anxious1570

lickerish1579

solicitous1628

mantling1657

ambitioning1683

urgent1753

avid1769

agasp1800

concernable1886

yearnful1889

yevery1896

a1300 Cursor Mundi 27597 O pride becums als wainglory, Þat es to be o roos gredi.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1370 The Grekes were full gredy, grippit hom belyue, Prayen and pyken mony priuey chambur.

1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 118^v So all oure prelates, byshops, and curates..should be so paynfull, so gredy in castyng their netts, that is to say, in preachyng Gods worde.

a1569 M. Coverdale Fruitful Lessons (1593) To Rdr. sig. A4^v O how euill doth it become a beleeuer, to be irefull and greedie of vengeance.

1600 S. Forman Autobiogr. & Diary (1849) 11 He was soe gredy on his bocke.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 34 A great enquirer of truth, but too greedy a receiver of it.

1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. VIII. 241 The populace, who are ever greedy of novelty.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 671 The rank society of Weeds, Noisome, and ever greedy to exhaust The impoverished earth.

1884 Sat. Rev. 12 July 38/1 The people of the United States are seldom greedy of legislation.

figurative.c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1709 (1758) The see, that gredy is to flowen.1899 G. G. Findlay in Expositor Feb. 94 Dogmatic theology, greedy of proof-texts.

4. Of actions, qualities, emotions, and the like: Characterized by or manifesting intense or eager desire; keen, eager.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > [adjective] > eager (of actions or emotions)

keena1375

greedyc1385

pungenta1710

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 105 My besy goost..To sene this flour so yonge..Constrayned me with so gredy desyre.

1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 10 Most greedy gripes with plunging paines, doe pierce my ruthfull hart.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. H^v He himselfe with greedie great desyre Into the Castle entred forcibly.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. H4^v With griping talaunts armd to greedy fight.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 257 With greedy hope to find His wish and best advantage.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 18 Had not my greedy Eye espied a House more eminently seated.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 532 [Which] begot a greedy hope, and expectation in him, that this Petition would have been..an Introduction to Peace.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xiv. 292 He and Partridge sat with greedy and impatient Ears.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxii. 207 Smike listened with greedy interest.

†5. transferred. Of spoil, prey: Greedily pursued. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [adjective] > entangled, trapped

intricate1526

intricated1565

laqueat1575

greedy1590

engaged1615

on the nail1810

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. B4^v Being void of Martiall discipline, All running headlong after greedy spoiles.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xxi. 187 The monster..thinking to have made some of us his greedy prey.

6. adv. or quasi-adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adverb] > eating voraciously

greedilyc1000

frecklyc1275

ravenously?a1425

frechedlyc1450

raveningly1533

devouringly1552

locust-like1596

gulchingly1598

greedy1599

voraciously1752

1599 R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. 83 To a greedi eating horse, a short halter.

1612 S. Rowlands More Knaues Yet 16 A desp'rate fellow fell to eate salt Beefe: Feeding so greedy that the rest admir'd.

Compounds

C1.

greedy-minded adj.

ΚΠ

?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 26 A greedy mynded man..may be, and is a couetous man.

1614 S. Hieron All the Serm. 259 Greedy minded men, which seeke by all meanes to secret and keep close the treasure they haue found.

C2.

greedy glede n. dialect a kite; also the name of a children's game (Jamieson).

ΚΠ

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 205 As gredy gleddis ȝe gang With polkis to mylne, and beggis baith meill and schilling.

a1568 Wyf of Auchtermuchty 51 By thair cumis the gredy gled, And likkit vp five [gaislingis].

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 10 At greedy-glad, or warpling o' the green, She 'clipst them a'.

1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 282 Kite,... Provincial... Greedy Glead.

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 137 Greedy gled.

† greedy worm n. Obsolete see quot. 1579; = hungry worm n. at hungry adj. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 227/1 Gredy worme that is in a dogges tong.

1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ii. 38 If the lyttle Nerue vnder a Whelps tongue (commonly called the greedy worme) be taken away, it keepes the same safe after from being madde.

1608 Bp. J. Hall Pharisaisme & Christianity 85 O thou worldling, which hast the greedy-worm vnder thy tong with Esaies dogs, and neuer hast enough.

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单词	greedy
释义	greedyadj. Brit. /ˈɡriːdi/, U.S. /ˈɡridi/ Forms: Old English grǽdig, Middle English gradi, grady, Middle English–1500s gredi, Middle English grediȝ, Middle English gredie, Middle English–1600s gredy, 1500s greadye, 1500s Scottish grydy, 1500s–1600s greedie, 1500s– greedy. Etymology: Old English grǽdig = Old Saxon grádag, Old High German grâtag, Old Norse gráðug-r (Old Swedish grådig, Danish graadig), Gothic grédags < Old Germanic græ̂đago-, -ugo-, < græ̂đu-z (Gothic grêdu-s hunger, Old Norse gráð-r hunger, greed, Old English grǽd in dative plural grǽdum eagerly), cognate with Sanskrit grdh to be greedy. 1. a. Having an intense desire or inordinate appetite for food or drink; ravenous, voracious, gluttonous. †In some of the earlier quots. the meaning is simply: Hungry. Const. of (Old English genitive); †also after, on, upon, (for) to have something (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [adjective] > having (good) appetite > greedy or voracious yevereOE greedy971 reavingOE fretewil?c1225 ravissantc1300 ravishingc1350 ravenous?1387 raveningc1390 ravisablea1425 eating1483 yeverous1483 savourousa1492 yevery1531 vorax1535 gluttonisha1586 falconish1587 ravin1615 vulturous1623 ravened1627 gorb?1635 esurine1687 voracious1693 gastrolatrous1694 tigerantica1704 gutsy1803 bulimious1816 polyphagian1825 yevrisome1825 edacious1829 polyphagous1837 tigerocious1874 bulimic1886 hyperphagic1943 971 Blickl. Hom. 211 Þa fynd..heora gripende wæron swa swa grædig wulf. OE Beowulf 121 Wiht unhælo, grim ond grædig, gearo sona wæs, reoc ond reþe. a1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 216 Þam grædigan fisce, þe gesihð þæt æs, and ne gesihð ðone angel ðe on ðam æse sticað. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 123 Þenne bið he gredi þes eses and forswoleȝeð þene hoc forð mid þan ese. c1200 Vices & Virtues (1888) 139 Sobrietas..makeð þanne mann maðfull ðe was to grady. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 167 Hwen gredi hundes stondeð biuore þe bord. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1494 Iacob wurð war he was gredi. c1325 Body & Soul 43 in Map's Poems (Camden) 340 Thyne mete..That thou were gredi for to frete. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 398 Two gredy sowes. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. iii. 53 The foxe is rauenous, greedie on his pray. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 93 The falling Mast, For greedy Swine, provides a full repast. View more context for this quotation 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 427 He said, and greedy grasp'd the heady bowl. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xiv. 86 Most sorts of Cattle are greedy of it. 1767 T. Hutchinson Hist. Province Massachusets-Bay, 1691–1750 i. 100 As greedy after their prey as a wolf. 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 96/2 This snake is very greedy of milk. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 180 Greedy hawk must gorge his prey. figurative.OE Phoenix 507 Weorþeð anra gehwylc forht on ferþþe, þonne fyr briceð læne londwelan, ligeal þigeð eorðan æhtegestreon, æpplede gold gifre forgripeð, grædig swelgeð londes frætwe.1572 G. Gascoigne Dan Bartholmew Hund. Flowers 429 I seeke a greedy graue, To make an ende of all these stormes and strife.1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 9 Coozning the greedie sea, prisning their nimble prey.1656 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa V. iii. ii. 119 I..knew the Vessel was founder'd, had struck, or sprung some greedy Leak.1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. ix. 288 The first fat Off'rings, to th' Immortals due, Amidst the greedy Flames Patroclus threw.1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xv. 158 The..noise of greedy Acheron.1860 B. Taylor Pine Forest Monterey in Poems (1866) 321 Look from the greedy wave. b. said of the stomach, etc.; also of the appetite. See also greedy-guts n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [adjective] > having (good) appetite > greedy or voracious > of appetite or stomach greedy1526 ostrich1598 caninal1599 canine1609 voracious1635 angry1673 peckish1714 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. GGiii To stuffe and fyll the gredy gutte of thy bely with delicate metes. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kij Theyr gredy gorgys ar rapt with the smell. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. Aa4^v Yet soft and fayre: oregreedy jawes Eate not their meale with decent pause. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 211 Her appetite strong and greedy. 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxxiv. 290 The stomacke when it is greedy of meate, draweth it selfe vp towardes the throate. c. said of chemical substances which absorb with avidity. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical properties > [adjective] > of or relating to miscellaneous other properties sweet1666 nimble1671 watery1741 unvitriolized1757 greedy1758 unneutralized1758 unvitrifiable1758 free1783 fixed1800 nascent1800 inorganic1831 assimilative1837 unnitrogenized1846 inactive1848 kaligenous1854 unacceptant1866 aggressive1888 oligodynamic1893 chromotropic1899 undissociated1899 osmophoric1901 thermochromic1904 unary1923 non-stoichiometric1943 odoriphoric1944 slow-release1946 sonoluminescent1961 uniaxial1965 1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 278 The Acid of the Phosphorus..is very greedy of moisture. 1791 W. Nicholson tr. J. A. C. Chaptal Elements Chem. III. iv. iii. 63 The oil is more drying or greedy of oxigene. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 194 When the air is very greedy of moisture. 2. Eager for gain, wealth, and the like; avaricious, covetous, rapacious. Const. as in sense 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [adjective] > inordinately desirous of possessions greedya1000 overgreedyOE avarous1303 covetous1340 concupiscible1398 avaricious1474 silver-sick?a1500 lucrous1511 having1528 lucrative1549 concupiscentious1555 holding1569 griping?1573 concupiscential1577 over-havinga1600 gripulous1614 ingordigious1637 concupitive1651 appropriative1655 lucripetous1675 coveting1699 grasping1747 concupiscenta1834 acquisitive1846 pleonectic1858 big-eye1868 wanting1876 possessive1889 grabby1910 gold-digging1925 territorial1966 a1000 Solomon & Saturn 344 Sum to lyt hafað godes grædig. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 105 God nele þet we beon gredie ȝitseras. a1200 Moral Ode 264 And weren to gredi of solure and of golde. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 195 Þe deuel is gredi uppen woreld richeise and gredi him to winende. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 304 Ne beo nan þe gredure forto habbe mare. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 347 Men seien þat preestis ben moost gredy purchasours in erþe. c1400 Rom. Rose 5696 An usurer..Shal never for richesse riche bee But..Scarce, and gredy in his entent. c1500 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 148 Praying that ye wille content unto this bringer, my Cousin Robart Hastings, iiij mark & xxd. now dew unto him at this Martymasse last, which is right gredy therupon. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xxi. 202 A wolvish, greedy, and covetous heart. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 51 That Crop rewards the greedy Peasant's Pains. View more context for this quotation 1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. ii. 33 Nor is a porter less greedy of money, which he spends on bacon and brandy, than a courtier, who purchases champagne and ortolans. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 209 Unscrupulous and greedy power. 1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. 461 The..exactions of corrupt magistrates, and their greedy officers. absolute.c1400 Rom. Rose 5791 If these gredy..Loveden, and were loved ageyn..Such wikkidnesse ne shulde falle. 3. In wider sense: Eager, keen; †eagerly active, zealous (obsolete); eagerly or keenly desirous of or †to do (something). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > [adjective] yernc893 oflisteOE courageousc1290 eager?a1300 greedya1300 keena1375 affectuousa1400 lickerousc1405 appetentc1420 affectual1483 gasping1517 zealous1531 avidious1534 avidous1542 affectivec1550 anxious1570 lickerish1579 solicitous1628 mantling1657 ambitioning1683 urgent1753 avid1769 agasp1800 concernable1886 yearnful1889 yevery1896 a1300 Cursor Mundi 27597 O pride becums als wainglory, Þat es to be o roos gredi. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1370 The Grekes were full gredy, grippit hom belyue, Prayen and pyken mony priuey chambur. 1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 118^v So all oure prelates, byshops, and curates..should be so paynfull, so gredy in castyng their netts, that is to say, in preachyng Gods worde. a1569 M. Coverdale Fruitful Lessons (1593) To Rdr. sig. A4^v O how euill doth it become a beleeuer, to be irefull and greedie of vengeance. 1600 S. Forman Autobiogr. & Diary (1849) 11 He was soe gredy on his bocke. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 34 A great enquirer of truth, but too greedy a receiver of it. View more context for this quotation 1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. VIII. 241 The populace, who are ever greedy of novelty. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 671 The rank society of Weeds, Noisome, and ever greedy to exhaust The impoverished earth. 1884 Sat. Rev. 12 July 38/1 The people of the United States are seldom greedy of legislation. figurative.c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1709 (1758) The see, that gredy is to flowen.1899 G. G. Findlay in Expositor Feb. 94 Dogmatic theology, greedy of proof-texts. 4. Of actions, qualities, emotions, and the like: Characterized by or manifesting intense or eager desire; keen, eager. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > [adjective] > eager (of actions or emotions) keena1375 greedyc1385 pungenta1710 c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 105 My besy goost..To sene this flour so yonge..Constrayned me with so gredy desyre. 1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 10 Most greedy gripes with plunging paines, doe pierce my ruthfull hart. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. H^v He himselfe with greedie great desyre Into the Castle entred forcibly. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. H4^v With griping talaunts armd to greedy fight. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 257 With greedy hope to find His wish and best advantage. View more context for this quotation 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 18 Had not my greedy Eye espied a House more eminently seated. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 532 [Which] begot a greedy hope, and expectation in him, that this Petition would have been..an Introduction to Peace. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xiv. 292 He and Partridge sat with greedy and impatient Ears. View more context for this quotation 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxii. 207 Smike listened with greedy interest. †5. transferred. Of spoil, prey: Greedily pursued. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [adjective] > entangled, trapped intricate1526 intricated1565 laqueat1575 greedy1590 engaged1615 on the nail1810 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. B4^v Being void of Martiall discipline, All running headlong after greedy spoiles. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xxi. 187 The monster..thinking to have made some of us his greedy prey. 6. adv. or quasi-adv. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adverb] > eating voraciously greedilyc1000 frecklyc1275 ravenously?a1425 frechedlyc1450 raveningly1533 devouringly1552 locust-like1596 gulchingly1598 greedy1599 voraciously1752 1599 R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. 83 To a greedi eating horse, a short halter. 1612 S. Rowlands More Knaues Yet 16 A desp'rate fellow fell to eate salt Beefe: Feeding so greedy that the rest admir'd. Compounds C1. greedy-minded adj. ΚΠ ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 26 A greedy mynded man..may be, and is a couetous man. 1614 S. Hieron All the Serm. 259 Greedy minded men, which seeke by all meanes to secret and keep close the treasure they haue found. C2. greedy glede n. dialect a kite; also the name of a children's game (Jamieson). ΚΠ a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 205 As gredy gleddis ȝe gang With polkis to mylne, and beggis baith meill and schilling. a1568 Wyf of Auchtermuchty 51 By thair cumis the gredy gled, And likkit vp five [gaislingis]. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 10 At greedy-glad, or warpling o' the green, She 'clipst them a'. 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 282 Kite,... Provincial... Greedy Glead. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 137 Greedy gled. † greedy worm n. Obsolete see quot. 1579; = hungry worm n. at hungry adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 227/1 Gredy worme that is in a dogges tong. 1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ii. 38 If the lyttle Nerue vnder a Whelps tongue (commonly called the greedy worme) be taken away, it keepes the same safe after from being madde. 1608 Bp. J. Hall Pharisaisme & Christianity 85 O thou worldling, which hast the greedy-worm vnder thy tong with Esaies dogs, and neuer hast enough. 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