单词 | money-monger |
释义 | money-mongern. derogatory. Now archaic. A person who deals in money; esp. a moneylender. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money-dealer Lombard1377 collybistc1380 banqueter1534 money-monger1571 scrivener1572 money man1585 money merchant1595 money broker1616 cashier1643 money-gentleman1665 money-jobber1692 moneyer1706 money-dealer1785 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest ten tribes971 gavellerc1200 usurerc1290 Caorsin1303 collybistc1380 ockererc1390 fenerator1447 usuraryc1450 usurier1480 user1566 fulker1568 money-monger1571 moneylender1598 twenty in the hundred1602 Jew's trump1605 putter-outa1616 money-bawd1631 chevisancer1633 use-man1633 Lombardeer1645 money-banker1677 bummaree1738 mahajan1852 sixty per cent1853 gombeen-man1862 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xv. 5) For it is a very vnmeet thing, that..only the monymongers sitting stil shuld take tribute of euery mans labors. ?1620 S. Rowlands Paire of Spy-knaues 14 The sonnes of Mammon, mony-monger slaues. 1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat iv. ii. sig. I My pay..The citie cormorants, my monie-mongers, Have swallow'd downe already. 1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 154 Such a Money-Monger, such a Tally-Broker, and Cheater of the Publick. 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 32 The 'Change-alley jobbers, who can no more suffer a story to lie still without improving, than these money-mongers can their cash without interest. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen vii. 103 Rothschild, (the late money-monger). 1877 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VII. lxxxii. 325 Given..not by God..but only by the Jew money-monger in twenty per cent. 1912 W. Owen Let. 19 Mar. (1967) 125 To buck up the tardy money-mongers. 1983 C. J. Fox Journey into Barbary p. xv The contemporary political scandal in France involving that mysteriously influential underworld moneymonger, Serge Stavisky. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1571 |
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