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greedsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From greed + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by greed; avaricious
   • This is not to say that the larch are gluttons, greedsome water scavengers totally out of control. 2013, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Tim Folger, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013:
   • The ant believes what you tell him; the greedsome anteater thrives upon this credulity. 1916, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Old Judge Priest:

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