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gold-finder en · NOUN
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A prospector for gold.
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(humorous, slang) A person who cleans the latrines.
Divers Gentlemen walking the ſtreets ſomewhat late where the Goldfinders were at worke, fie fellowes ſay they, what a beaſtly ſtinke doe yee make? To whom one of the moſt ancient amongſt them replyed; If gentlemen, you or ſuch as you would keepe your tailes ſtopped, you ſhould not now need to ſtop your noſes.
1633, A Banqvet of Jests: or, Change of Cheare. Being a collection, of Moderne Ieſts. Witty Ieeres. Pleaſant Taunts. Merry Tales. The Second Part newly publiſhed, page 29:But though in this particular, and perhaps in their success, the truth-finder and the gold-finder may very properly be compared together;
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume VI, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I:
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