Reverse Dictionary: AVARICE

ADJECTIVES
► A HOG FOR avaricious, greedy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► AVAROUS ► AVERISH ► AVEROUS avaricious, covetous, greedy → 1303 obs. exc. Eng. dial. obs.
► CHUFF-PENNY miserly, avaricious → 1603 obs.
► GRABBY avaricious, greedy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GRIPPY having a tendency to be avaricious or parsimonious → 1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GRIPULOUS avaricious, grasping, greedy → 1614 obs.
► HOGGY avaricious, greedy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HOOKEM-SNIVEY avaricious, greedy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► INGORDIGIOUS avaricious, greedy → 1637 obs.
► KEEN avaricious, driving a hard bargain, looking sharply after one’s own interests → 1902 Sc.
► LUCRATIVE avaricious, covetous; bent upon or directed towards making of gain → 1549 obs.
► LUCROUS avaricious, covetous → 1551 obs.
► MISERTISH avaricious, miserly → 1824 Sc.
► MISERTLY avaricious, miserly → 1903 N. Ireland (Bk.)
► ON THE MAKE avaricious, greedy; said of someone intent on profit → 1869 orig. US
► PHILARGYROUS avaricious, loving money, greedy of gain, covetous → 1665 obs.
► PIGGY avaricious, greedy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SCRAPE-GOOD avaricious, miserly, stingy → 1693 obs.
► SHONKY avaricious, mean; money-grubbing → 1951 sl.
► SILVER-SICK avaricious → 1500 obs.

NOUNS
► AVARITION the quality of being avaricious; greediness of wealth → 1622 obs.
► CHINCHERY avarice, niggardliness, miserliness → 1386 obs.
► GRIPPLENESS avarice, greed, niggardliness → 1571 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► CHUFF a miser, a close, avaricious man → 1588
► CORMULLION an avaricious churlish fellow; a curmudgeon; a miser, a niggard → 1596 obs.
► CURMUDGEON an avaricious, churlish fellow; a miser, a niggard → 1587 
► GED an avaricious or greedy person; a glutton → 1825 Sc. obs.
► GIPE ► GYPE an avaricious or greedy person → 1662 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
► GRAB-ALL a grasping, avaricious person → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GRIPE-ALL a grasping, avaricious person → 1823
► MESSALINA an avaricious, voracious woman → 1975 US sl.
► MISERD an avaricious, close-fisted person, a miser → 1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MONEY-GRUB an avaricious person; one who is sordidly intent on amassing money → 1768 
► MONEY-GRUBBER an avaricious or rapacious person; a person motivated chiefly by avarice or commercialism → 1825 
► NEEDMORE an avaricious or greedy person → 1968 Amer. dial.
► SCORRIE an avaricious, quarrelsome person → 1961 Sc.
► SCRAPE ► SCRAPIE an avaricious, greedy person; a miser → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCRAPE-PENNY an avaricious or penurious person; one who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums → 1584 obs.
► SCRIMGER an avaricious, covetous person → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SNIG an avaricious or covetous person → 1629 obs.
► SNUDGE an avaricious, mean person; a stingy person; an intrusive, sponging fellow → 1545 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SUCK-EGG an avaricious person → 1609 
► THROTTLE-POKE an avaricious, grasping person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► RAKE AND SCRAPE to be avaricious and over-grasping; to collect everything one can lay one’s hands on for one’s own advantage → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SKIN A FLEA FOR ITS HIDE to be avaricious, mean, or stingy; to go to great lengths to save money → 1868 
► SKIN A FLEA FOR ITS HIDE AND TALLOW to be avaricious, mean, or stingy; to go to great lengths to save money → 1819 Amer. dial.
► SKIN A GNAT FOR A PENNY to be avaricious, mean, or stingy; to go to great lengths to save money → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SKIN A LOUSE to be avaricious, mean, or stingy; to go to great lengths to save money → 1803 Amer. dial.
► SKIN A LOUSE FOR A CENT to be avaricious, mean, or stingy; to go to great lengths to save money → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SKIN A LOUSE FOR HIS HIDE AND TALLOW to be avaricious, mean, or stingy; to go to great lengths to save money → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SKIN A LOUSE FOR HIS HIDE to be avaricious, mean, or stingy; to go to great lengths to save money → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SKIN A LOUSE FOR TALLOW to be avaricious, mean, or stingy; to go to great lengths to save money → 1965 Amer. dial.