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English
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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)
- 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