money-spinnern.
/ˈmʌnɪˌspɪnə/, U.S. /ˈməniˌspɪnər/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > miscellaneous types > aranea scenica (money-spider)
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1756 F. Brooke Old Maid No. 36. 212 Last night you were more pleased than a wise woman ought to have been, at seeing a money-spinner upon your handkerchief.
1850 Harper's Mag. Nov. 824/1 The day will probably arrive when the minute thread of..the money-spinner will be reeled, thrown, and woven into fabrics fit for Titania and her court.
1887 S. Baring-Gould Red Spider ii. 22 The money-spinner is a tickle (touchy) beast, and may take offence at a godless word.
2. Originally: a person who makes large profits by speculation or usury. Later more widely: a person who or (now usually) thing which generates a great deal of money or is very profitable.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > source of profit
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > profiteering > one who
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1825 H. J. Finn Montgomery iii. v. 52 You're a liberal pay-master..so, here's to you, my moneyspinner.
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 69 The clown, the dunderheaded moneyspinner who votes that books are ‘rubbish’.
c1880 A. W. Pinero Money Spinner (1890) 22 Have you forgotten my father's [gaming] house... Have you forgotten what they called me then, because of my never-failing good fortune—because of my luck. They called me the Money Spinner!
1954 G. Smith Flaw in Crystal 87 He found he had a pretty knack of writing so that ordinary men and women could understand and feel something of the beauty he saw around him. And he turned that touch into a money-spinner.
1970 Times 23 Jan. 25/5 (advt.) Their products range from fertilizers and basic heavy chemicals to..complex petro-chemicals..big money-spinners for Britain's export.
1990 Which? Oct. 571/2 Investing in things in limited supply, or collectors' items such as certain antiques, can be a moneyspinner.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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