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{ "etymology_text": "From money and grub (“to search for by digging in soil or dirt”).", "forms": [ { "form": "more money-grubbing", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most money-grubbing", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "money-grubbing (comparative more money-grubbing, superlative most money-grubbing)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations", "parents": [ "Terms with redundant transliterations", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Cantonese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Tagalog translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1768, John Cleland, The Woman of Honor, volume 3, page 96:", "text": "Nor will you think this ſtrange, when I tell you, that, take him out of his rote of official buſtle, and the jargon of Change-alley, he had not an idea beyond that money-grubbing ſphere, and was ſcarce not a born ideot, with a head as contracted as his heart[.]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Fiercely avaricious for money." ], "id": "en-money-grubbing-en-adj-0GYr6ARr", "links": [ [ "derogatory", "derogatory" ], [ "Fiercely", "fiercely" ], [ "avaricious", "avaricious" ], [ "money", "money" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(somewhat derogatory) Fiercely avaricious for money." ], "synonyms": [ { "alt": "eggcorn", "word": "money-grabbing" }, { "word": "moneygrubbing" } ], "tags": [ "derogatory" ], "translations": [ { "code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "sense": "fiercely avaricious for money", "word": "貪錢" }, { "alt": "taam¹ cin⁴⁻²", "code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "sense": "fiercely avaricious for money", "word": "贪钱" }, { "code": "tl", "lang": "Tagalog", "sense": "fiercely avaricious for money", "word": "mukhang pera" } ] } ], "word": "money-grubbing" }
{ "etymology_text": "From money and grub (“to search for by digging in soil or dirt”).", "forms": [ { "form": "more money-grubbing", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most money-grubbing", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "money-grubbing (comparative more money-grubbing, superlative most money-grubbing)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations", "English adjectives", "English derogatory terms", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English terms with quotations", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Terms with Cantonese translations", "Terms with Tagalog translations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1768, John Cleland, The Woman of Honor, volume 3, page 96:", "text": "Nor will you think this ſtrange, when I tell you, that, take him out of his rote of official buſtle, and the jargon of Change-alley, he had not an idea beyond that money-grubbing ſphere, and was ſcarce not a born ideot, with a head as contracted as his heart[.]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Fiercely avaricious for money." ], "links": [ [ "derogatory", "derogatory" ], [ "Fiercely", "fiercely" ], [ "avaricious", "avaricious" ], [ "money", "money" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(somewhat derogatory) Fiercely avaricious for money." ], "tags": [ "derogatory" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "alt": "eggcorn", "word": "money-grabbing" }, { "word": "moneygrubbing" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "sense": "fiercely avaricious for money", "word": "貪錢" }, { "alt": "taam¹ cin⁴⁻²", "code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "sense": "fiercely avaricious for money", "word": "贪钱" }, { "code": "tl", "lang": "Tagalog", "sense": "fiercely avaricious for money", "word": "mukhang pera" } ], "word": "money-grubbing" }
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