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ˈgold-ˌdigger
[gold1.]
1. One who digs for gold. Also fig.
1830Cherokee Phoenix (New Echota, Ga.) 24 Mar. 3/3 There are tippling shops on every hill where these gold diggers are collected. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 305 We cheer the pale gold-diggers. 1855R. Henning Let. 29 Mar. (1966) 25 Dressed-up in a blue gold-digger's shirt over his clothes. 1948O. Weston Mother Lode Album 28 Savage and his party of Indian gold diggers encamped under a big oak. 1954Koestler Invis. Writing xix. 218, I had been done in..as thoroughly and completely as a choir-boy in a gold-digger town.
2. A girl or woman who attaches herself to a man merely for gain. slang (orig. U.S.).
1920B. Mantle in Best Plays of 1919–20 360 ‘Jerry’ Lamar is one of a band of pretty little salamanders known to Broadway as ‘gold diggers’, because they ‘dig’ for the gold of their gentlemen friends and spend it being good to their mothers and their pet dogs. 1928Sunday Dispatch 19 Aug. 20 The professional gold-digger is generally a girl of good family who finds she can supplement her allowance by going out with, say, half-a-dozen men. 1934G. B. Shaw On Rocks ii. 263 All I can get out of her is that she is not a gold digger, and wouldnt be seen at a wedding with a lousy viscount. 1959J. Braine Vodi xii. 162 It was expensive; that appealed to Lois. Not that she was a gold-digger; but once he started going around with her there were more withdrawals than deposits in his Post Office savings book. |