money-grubbing

See also: moneygrubbing

English

Alternative forms

• money-grabbing (eggcorn)
• moneygrubbing

Etymology

From money and grub (“to search for by digging in soil or dirt”).

Adjective

money-grubbing (comparative more money-grubbing, superlative most money-grubbing)

1. (somewhat derogatory) Fiercely avaricious for money.
   • 1768, John Cleland, The Woman of Honor, volume 3, page 96:

     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[.]

Translations

fiercely avaricious for money

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 貪錢／贪钱 (taam¹ cin^4-2)

• Tagalog: mukhang pera