money-grubbern.

Brit.

/ˈmʌnɪˌɡrʌbə/, U.S.

/ˈməniˌɡrəbər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: money n., grubber n.

Etymology: < money n. + grubber n., although probably influenced by earlier money-grub n.

A person who seeks assiduously to acquire or accumulate money, esp. by sordid or contemptible methods; a person motivated chiefly by avarice or commercialism.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > one who wants or acquires money > specific desirously or avariciously

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scraper1561

grubber1578

coin-cormorant1594

purse-leech1605

purse-emptier1611

pouch-penny1629

purse-sucker1671

gruba1681

money-grub1768

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scratch-penny1835

get-rich-quicker1914

1825 C. Lamb Let. May (1935) III. 5 O the money-grubbers—sempiternal muckworms!

1840 Bentley's Misc. 8 449 The money-grubber, pent up in a close city.

1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner II. 258 Was this..the mere money-grubber and sordid Harpagon?

1932 A. Huxley Lett. (1969) 361 It's terrifying what can be done by people who have a monopoly of means of propaganda—private money-grubbers.

1956 O. Welles Mr. Arkadin ii. iv. 133 She was an ageing, embittered woman, harassed by financial worries... With this sharp-witted money-grubber I was going to haggle.

1994 M. Gee Crime Story (1996) iv. 67 Some..moneygrubber who counts his takings into a jam jar every night.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

3. One who gets together wealth by sordid or contemptible methods. Now usually money-grubber. [Compare Dutch grobber money-grubber.]

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