Reverse Dictionary: COVET

ADJECTIVES
► AVAROUS covetous, avaricious, greedy → 1303 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► BEDDY covetous of trifles; greedy → 1721 Sc.
► BIG EYE covetous, greedy → 1650s sl.
► BIG-EYED covetous, greedy → 1947 African-American usage
► CLUNCH-FISTED covetous, close-fisted, niggardly, stingy → 1644 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► CUPIDINOUS covetous, full of desire or cupidity, desirous, greedy → 1656
► CUPIDOUS covetous, desirous, greedy → 1656
► GAIR ► GARE covetous, eager, desirous of wealth; miserly → 1719 Sc.
► GRABALICIOUS ► GRABILICIOUS covetous, greedy, grabby → 1970s W. Indies Rasta usage
► HARD covetous, close-fisted, grasping, penurious, miserly → 1703 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HAVING covetous, greedy, grasping; desirous of having or possessing → 1591 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► IRON-FISTED covetous, close-fisted, niggardly, miserly, stingy, mean → 1826
► LIKE A PIG, NO GOOD ALIVE selfish; greedy; covetous → L16 colloq.
► LUCRATIVE covetous, avaricious; bent upon or directed towards making of gain → 1549 obs.
► LUCROUS covetous, avaricious → 1551 obs.
► MENSELESS covetous, greedy; selfish, inhospitable → 1742 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MISDEEDED covetous, miserly → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MISERABLE covetous, greedy; miserly, stingy → 1853 Eng. dial.
► NABALISH covetous, grasping, greedy → 1825 Sc.
► NEAR covetous, greedy, mean, frugal, niggardly, miserly, stingy, parsimonious → 1616
► NEWIS ► NEWOUS covetous, earnestly desirous, greedy, parsimonious → 1808 Sc.
► PHILARGYROUS covetous, loving money, greedy of gain, avaricious → 1665 obs.
► SCHEMISH covetous, scheming, manoeuvring, unscrupulous and grasping in bargaining → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SITIENT coveting, desiring much → 1656
► SNIPPY covetous, parsimonious, mean → 1727 Eng. dial.
► YAMSE covetous, greedy, eager to get → 1908 Sc.
► YARE covetous, stingy → 1691 Eng. dial.
► YERN covetous, greedy → 893 obs.
► YEVER covetous, greedy → 888 obs. exc. Sc.

NOUNS
► CUPIDITY ardent desire, inordinate longing or lust; covetousness → 1547
► GAIR covetousness, greed → 1821 Sc.
► HAVINGNESS covetousness, desire of having → 1577 obs.
► LONG-EYE covetousness, greed → 20C W. Indies sl.
► SCREWAGE covetousness, savings, profit → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► EARTHWORM a covetous, grasping person; a miser; a sordid wretch → 1594
► GEENOCH a covetous insatiable person; a greedy person → 1825 Sc.
► GREEDYGUT ► GREEDYGUTS a covetous, greedy, or selfish person → 1899 Amer. dial.
► GRIPES a covetous person; a miser; a usurer → 1592 obs.
► HAKE a covetous person; a greedy, grasping, discontented person → 1855 Eng. dial.
► HANNIEL a covetous, greedy person → 1781 Eng. dial.
► HAYNE a covetous man, a miser → 1386 obs.
► HUNKS a covetous, sordid man → 1602
► INCUBO a covetous man who broods over or jealously guards his wealth → 1607 obs.
► LICKPENNY a covetous, greedy person; one who ‘licks up’ the pennies; a miser → 1400 obs.
► MONEY-GRABBER a covetous or rapacious person → 1892
► NANNY PINCH-POT a covetous, miserable wretch → 1893 Eng. dial.
► NIPCHEESE a covetous, parsimonious person; a skinflint → 1825
► PHILARGYRIST a covetous person; a lover of money → 1633 obs.
► PINCHPENNY a covetous person; a miser, a niggard, a skinflint → 1412 obs.
► RAKER a covetous person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRAPE-GOOD a covetous person; a miser, a niggard → 1611 obs.
► SCRIMGER a covetous, avaricious person → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SNIBBLE-NOSE a covetous, mean-spirited person; one who would save even the droppings of his nose → 1746 Eng. dial.
► SNIG a covetous or avaricious person → 1629 obs.
► TARTAR a covetous, greedy, or grasping person → 1828 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YETHGRUB a slave to covetousness; a miser → 1873 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YETHMAWK a slave to covetousness; a miser → 1873 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YETHWORM a slave to covetousness; a miser → 1873 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YISSER a covetous person → 1225 obs.

VERBS
► GRANK to complain, to murmur; to covet querulously → 1875 Eng. dial.
► HAVE LONG EYES FOR to be covetous for → 1996 W. Indies
► HAVE RAW EYES FOR to be covetous for → 1996 W. Indies
► HAVE THE BIG EYE to be covetous or greedy → 1903 Amer. dial.
► PUT ONE’S LONG EYE ON to covet, to desire for oneself → 20C W. Indies. sl.
► REAM to covet; to strive after; to attempt to get anything greedily → 1876 Eng. dial.
► THROW LONG EYE ON to covet, to desire for oneself → 20C W. Indies. sl.