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greed

noun
/ɡɹiːd/

Etymology

c. 1600. Back-formation from greedy.

Definitions

  1. A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money,…

    A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.

    • His greed was his undoing.
    • Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.

  2. To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire.

    • The ravens sit greeding, / And watching, and heeding: / Thoro' wind, over water, / Comes scent of the slaughter, / And ravens sit greeding / Their share of the bones.
    • Hearing these words he arose, because indeed he greeded for her, and came up behind her as she rested upon her elbows and knees and bending in hand his prickle nailed it into her coynte and did manly devoir.
    • This conniving bastard has greeded the farm off an old man and I end up with nothing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for greed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA