money-grubbing

• moneygrubbing

From money and grub (“to search for by digging in soil or dirt”).

money-grubbing (comparative more money-grubbing, superlative most money-grubbing)

1. Fiercely avaricious for money.
   • 1768, John Cleland, The Woman of Honor, volume 3, page 96:

     Nor will you think this ſtrange, when I tell you, that, take him out of his rote of official buſtle, and the jargon of Change-alley, he had not an idea beyond that money-grubbing ſphere, and was ſcarce not a born ideot, with a head as contracted as his heart[.]