gold-dig
verb
transitive verb
: to extract money or gifts from by coaxing or flattery
why did you coax him, tease him, gold-dig him
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewisintransitive verb
: to extract money or gifts from men by coaxing or flattery
she went with him wherever he wanted to go, and she never tried to maneuver him or gold-dig Ann Chidester
Ann Chidester
Word History
Etymology
back-formation from gold digger
- stickup man
- stickups
- stickwater
- stickweed
- stickweeds
- stickwork
- stickworks
- stickwort
- sticky
- sticky bomb
- sticky bun
- sticky charge
- sticky cockle
- sticky currant
- sticky dog
- sticky fingers
- sticky grenade
- sticky hopbush
- sticky laurel
- sticky note
- sticky tape
- sticky wicket
- sticky wickets
- sticky-fingered
- sticky-handed