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Dutch
Etymology
Compound of roof (“theft, robbery”) or roven (“to rob”) + gier (“vulture, desire”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈroːf.xiːr/
- Hyphenation: roof‧gier
Noun
roofgier m (plural roofgieren)
- rapaciousness
- (figurative, literary) vulture
1815, Hendrik Tollens, ’s Konings komst tot den troon.:Helaas, gelijk door barre streken / Een kudde zonder herder graast, / En afdoolt, uit elkaar geweken, / Waar wolf en roofgier huilt en aast:- Alas, like through barren regions / A flock grazes without a shepherd, / And wanders off, dispersed, / Where wolf and vulture howl and prey
- rapacious person