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fortune-hunter en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of fortune hunter.
She had to do something to convince him that he could marry her even if she was a wealthy woman, Cherie decided. Why couldn’t the guy be a fortune-hunter? What was so wrong with that? Ha! She probably wouldn’t love him if he were. Life gets mighty complicated sometimes, she reflected wryly.
1980, Lynna Cooper, chapter 12, in Portrait of Love, Signet Books, page 117:[H]e did not know of what use money could be to a woman, except to make her a prey to a fortune-hunter.
c. 1802, Maria Edgeworth, “Almeria”, in Tales and Novels, volume V, From:"There is no character more contemptible than a man that is a fortune-hunter, and I can see no reason why fortune-hunting women should not be contemptible too."
1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 5, in The Vicar of Wakefield:"The stock-exchange, the pulpit, the counting-house, the royal drawing-room, the senate,—what but fortune-hunters are they filled with?"
1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 15, in Barnaby Rudge:She pictured him as a crafty adventurer, a wretched fortune-hunter.
1916, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 5, in Uneasy Money:
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