单词 | money-bound |
释义 | money-boundadj. Limited or restricted by lack of, or concern for, money; spec. detained for lack of available money (now rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > lacking money to the boneOE silverlessc1325 pennilessc1330 moneylessc1400 impecunious1596 crossless1600 penceless1605 unmoneyed1606 coinless1614 emptya1643 out of pocket1679 money-bound1710 broke1716 embarrassed1744 stiver cramped1785 plackless1786 taper1789 poundlessa1794 shillingless1797 unpennied1804 fundless1809 impecuniary1814 hard up1821 soldier-thighed1825 cashless1833 stiverless1839 fly-blown1853 strapped1857 stick1859 tight1859 stone-broke1886 stony1886 oofless1888 stony-broke1890 motherless1906 penny-pinched1918 skinned1924 skint1925 on the beach1935 potless1936 boracic1959 uptight1967 brassic1982 1710 R. Molesworth in G. M. Trevelyan Eng. Social Hist. (1944) 309 They and the daughters are all money-bound. 1825 T. Moore Mem. Life R. B. Sheridan II. 488 His letters to the treasurer of the theatre on these occasions were generally headed with the words ‘Money-bound’. 1863 J. C. Jeaffreson Sir Everard's Daughter 85 When you were often money-bound for a month at a time at a manor-house, because you hadn't the requisite amount of cash wherewith to tip the servants on leaving. 1879 M. Collins Pen Sketches I. 28 A dashing gent..being money-bound had pawned his watch at Salisbury. 1922 D. H. Lawrence Aaron's Rod (N.Y. ed.) xv. 210 Angus had been born in a house with a park, and of awful hard-willed, money-bound people. 1977 Rolling Stone 30 June 19/2 I think it's more money-bound now than it ever was. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1710 |
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