greedygreed‧y /ˈɡriːdi/ ●●○ adjective (comparative greedier, superlative greediest) 
a greedy and selfish society He looked at the gold with greedy eyes. Have you eaten them all, you greedy pig?greedy for They are greedy for profits.2greedy guts British English spoken someone who is greedy: Hey, greedy guts, leave some cake for me!—greedily adverb: He grabbed the bottle and drank greedily.—greediness noun [uncountable]
WORD ORIGINgreedy
Origin:
Old English grædigEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Greedy children often tend to put on too much weight.
- Don't be so greedy! Leave some cake for everyone else.
- He was an ambitious man, selfish and greedy.
- One of the cats gets greedy and eats the other one's food.
- Some landlords have become greedy and are demanding higher rents than people can afford.
- Take your greedy fingers off that pie - you've had more than enough already.
- The fee limit is there to protect veterans from greedy lawyers.
- the ridiculously high fees charged by greedy lawyers
- There were ten of us children in the family, and we were all greedy for attention.
- At a deeper level, they rowed about greed - guilt about greed and protection from supposedly greedy women.
- Four greedy eyes gobbled at her.
- Guy was greedy, amoral, obsessed with power and self-gratification.
- He seemed to think that the others were too rowdy, too greedy.
- Not because they made bad or greedy investments, and lost all their money in shaky stock deals.
- She would have liked to stay longer, but realised that would have been greedy.
- The greedy children were at constant odds with one another over control of the kingdom.
Longman Language Activatorfood
someone who is greedy wants to eat too much food, or eats more than their share of food - use this to show disapproval: · Don't be so greedy! Leave some cake for everyone else.· Greedy children often tend to put on too much weight.· Take your greedy fingers off that pie - you've had more than enough already.
spoken informal someone who is greedy: · You pig, you've eaten it all!greedy pig: · The greedy pig! He didn't leave any pizza for us.make a pig of yourself (=eat a lot of food greedily): · That's what Christmas is all about, isn't it? Making a pig of yourself.
British spoken someone who is very greedy - used especially by children: · Don't be such a greedy guts!· Hey, greedy guts, leave those sweets alone. They're mine.
a strong desire to eat too much food: · You don't really want more ice cream -- it's just greed.
someone who eats too much food: · Uncle Richard was a glutton who ate everything in sight.· We had salmon to start, followed by a glutton's dessert of crème brûleé.
formal when someone eats or drinks much more than necessary, usually with the result that they become ill or unhealthy - used especially in literature: · As soon as Christmas is over, people often start to regret their gluttony.· The level of heart disease in the western world is a measure of our gluttony.
money, possessions, power etc someone who is greedy wants more money, possessions, power etc than they need, or wants more than their share: · He was an ambitious man, selfish and greedy.· the ridiculously high fees charged by greedy lawyersbecome/get greedy: · Some landlords have become greedy and are demanding higher rents than people can afford.greedy for: · There were ten of us children in the family, and we were all greedy for attention.
very greedy so that you are not at all generous and treat other people very badly: · He seems like a good guy to me, not at all the usual grasping political type.
believing that having a lot of money and possessions is the most important thing in life: · Kids these days are very materialistic. They only seem to be interested in expensive toys and computer games.· Western societies are becoming more materialistic as their wealth increases.
a strong desire for more money, possessions, power etc than you need, or for more than your share: · It's a story of lust, hatred and greed.· Greed got him his fancy cars and high-powered boats. And greed caused his downfall.greed for: · The greed for power of local politicians is simply amazing.pure greed: · No one needs to earn salaries as big as that. It's pure greed, that's all it is.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES You greedy pig, you ate all the candy!COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
1always wanting more food, money, power, possessions etc than you need: (=showing that you want something very much)· The men looked around the room with their greedy eyes.
You greedy pig, you ate all the candy!· I have never seen anyone so greedy.· I got mad, because they were so greedy, and tried to shove them away from the chair.· I wonder why there is so much crime or is it the world we live in which makes people so greedy?· These foreigners are so greedy there's never anything left over for supper.· First Fraser, managing director of Neill's: The men are so greedy.
· Mrs Taylor kept an eye on us, ready to rap our knuckles if we got too greedy.· Tom was too greedy, and not very perceptive.· To ask for more for herself and put herself in a position of coming first felt too greedy and dangerous.· He seemed to think that the others were too rowdy, too greedy.· He was shrewd enough to know that to be too greedy with Jared Tunstall might lose him everything.
a greedy and selfish society He looked at the gold with greedy eyes. Have you eaten them all, you greedy pig?greedy for They are greedy for profits.2greedy guts British English spoken someone who is greedy: Hey, greedy guts, leave some cake for me!—greedily adverb: He grabbed the bottle and drank greedily.—greediness noun [uncountable]