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greedy(dictionary)

greedy (iou)



greedy adjective. ['gri:di]

Having an intense desire or inordinate appetite for food or drink; voracious, gluttonous. Formerly also, hungry. (Foll. by of.) OE.
W. Boyd Three sausages! You greedy thing!
Eager for gain, wealth, etc.; avaricious, covetous, rapacious. (Foll. by of, for.) OE.
P. Lively Jasper is greedy; he has to have money for its own sake.
Keen, eager; intensely desirous of, to do. ME.
Comb.: greedy-gut(s) colloq. a voracious eater, a glutton.