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hoardy en · ADJ

Etymology

From hoard + -y.

Meanings

1. Tending to hoard; grasping.
   • We were with P.T. and Charles but then they have to go do something or meet up with someone, so we're inside and she comes up and we talk a little but Zhad's there and being all hoardy of me, and she has to go off, so I think I wished her luck and, that was it, like didn't talk to her again, except maybe briefly in a large group again at the field. 2017, Ace Finlay, Ace Jefferson Finlay III, →ISBN:
   • I'm not a secretive, hoardy kind of person. 1997, Country Life - Volume 191, Issues 40-44, page 65:
   • An employer dipping his hoardy hands into the pay packets of workers doesn't ever expect an applause. 1985, Newswatch - Volume 2, page 4:
   • I hadn't wanted glass until George did; then I collected glass. I got hoardy, didn't want to give him the best pieces, though he's the one who knew to see them as beautiful. 2010, Maxine Kingston, The Fifth Book Of Peace, →ISBN:

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