MATERIALIST, MATERIALISTIC
ADJECTIVES
2000 ► materialistic, fashion-obsessed → BOUGHETTO → US students’ sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
1920 ► an older man who is willing to provide the various material desires of his younger mistress or, if homosexual, male lover → DADDY → sl., orig. US
1959 ► a narrow-minded, middle-class materialist → BABBITT
1960 ► an older man who is willing to provide the various material wants of a younger mistress, or, if gay, a younger male lover → SANTA CLAUS → sl.
1970 ► anyone perceived as putting material gains before spiritual ones → BABYLON → sl.
1971 ► a wealthy, materialistic person → RICH FARMER → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1990 ► a materialistic woman → FANCY GIRL → W. Indies sl.
1992 ► a greedy, materialistic young woman → GIMME GIRL → US sl.
2004 ► a ‘bourgeois bohemian’; a person who simultaneously favours materialistic behaviour and alternative tastes → BOBO → US sl.
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